2016
Human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab
AI safety researcher · computational humanities scholar · author
Katherine Elkins is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Kenyon College, Co-Founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab, and co-lead of the Modern Language Association team at the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium. Her research connects AI safety, computational humanities, narrative, creativity, philosophy of mind and literature, and higher education.
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
Co-leads the team representing the Modern Language Association at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium.
Co-PI of Archival Intelligence, a Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute project.
Cambridge Element on sentiment analysis for narrative, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Six connected areas spanning AI safety, governance, sentiment analysis, creativity, philosophy of mind and literature, and higher education.
Books, lectures, and edited work, including The Shapes of Stories and the Proust philosophical perspectives collection.
Grants, fellowships, awards, teaching honors, and selected research reception.
Selected press, broadcast, and public scholarship appearances across research, standards work, and archival intelligence.
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