About
NIST CAISI · Schmidt Sciences HAVI · Cambridge University Press · Kenyon AI CoLab
AI safety cannot be solved by engineering alone. Katherine Elkins works on the parts that require culture, narrative, judgment, memory, and institutions.
She co-leads the team representing the 25,000-member Modern Language Association at NIST CAISI, is Co-PI of Archival Intelligence, a Schmidt Sciences HAVI project rescuing endangered cultural archives, and is the author of The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Jon Chun, she co-founded Kenyon College’s human-centered AI curriculum and AI CoLab in 2016.
NIST CAISI co-lead · Schmidt Sciences HAVI Co-PI · Professor, Kenyon College · Co-Founder, Human-Centered AI Lab, 2016, with Jon Chun