AI Safety · Research · Author

Katherine Elkins

What happens to human knowing when machines can do what only humans could?

  • Co-Founder & PI, Human-Centered AI Lab
  • PI, NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (representing MLA)
  • PI, Schmidt Sciences HAVI (“Archival Intelligence”)
  • Working on a series of essays on AI and what the dominant frameworks miss
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Katherine Elkins, AI safety researcher and author

Recent Activity

News & Media

Feb 2026

Christian Science Monitor — quoted as NIST AI Safety Institute PI on language-model evaluation

Feb 2026

NPR / WOSU — “Could AI Save Endangered Archives?”

Jun 2025

Chronicle of Higher Education Virtual Forum — invited speaker

Dec 2025

Engineering (Chinese Academy of Sciences / Elsevier) — translation research featured

Nov 2025

Forbes — “Where AI Meets the Humanities”

Oct 2025

OpenAI Higher Education Forum — Education Guild selected speaker

Oct 2025

Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar — METC Conference keynote