Katherine Elkins, AI safety researcher and author

Katherine Elkins

AI safety researcher · cultural intelligence scholar · human-centered AI leader

Katherine Elkins is a researcher who shows why AI safety cannot be solved without culture, narrative, judgment, memory, and institutions. Her work connects AI safety, computational humanities, cultural data governance, narrative intelligence, and public-interest AI to ask how artificial intelligence reshapes human meaning, creativity, decision-making, and social institutions.

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Profiles: Kenyon profile Wikipedia Grokipedia Google Scholar ORCID CV

Early on AI

2016

Human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab

2020

GPT-3 Writer's Turing Test

2022

The Shapes of Stories, Cambridge University Press

2024

CAISI / AI safety audit / PMLA / ICML oral

2025

Schmidt Sciences HAVI / Public AI / OpenAI Higher Education Forum

Current Work

CAISI / NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium

Co-leads the team representing the Modern Language Association at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium.

Schmidt Sciences HAVI / Archival Intelligence

Co-PI of Archival Intelligence, a Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute project.

The Shapes of Stories

Cambridge Element on sentiment analysis for narrative, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

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Research Program

Six connected areas spanning AI safety, governance, sentiment analysis, creativity, philosophy of mind and literature, and higher education.

Scholarly Reception

How the work is cited, adopted, debated, and extended across fields.

Recognition

Grants, standards work, awards, fellowships, and invited institutional recognition.

Media & Speaking

Press, interviews, podcasts, keynotes, forums, and public talks.

For Journalists and Collaborators

FAQ

Definitions and routing for journalists, collaborators, program officers, search committees, and students.

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