# Katherine Elkins

> Katherine Elkins is a scholar of AI, literature, and philosophy; Professor at Kenyon College; co-lead of the team representing the 25,000-member Modern Language Association at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (CAISI); and Co-PI of Archival Intelligence, a Schmidt Sciences Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) project. Her work connects AI safety, AI governance, computational humanities, cultural data governance, narrative intelligence, creativity, philosophy of mind and literature, and higher education. With Jon Chun (https://jonachun.com) she co-founded the world's first human-centered AI curriculum and lab at Kenyon College in 2016.

Key facts:

- Author, The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?" (Journal of Cultural Analytics, 2020) — the first writer's Turing test of a large language model
- "AI Comes for the Author" (Poetics Today 45.2, 2024) — engaged by James Phelan in an instructive debate on AI and authorship
- Co-author, ICML 2024 oral (top 2%) position paper on open-source generative AI — named one of three canonical openness frameworks (FAccT 2025)
- Co-author, first ethics-based audit of moral reasoning in deployed LLMs (Informed AI Regulation, 2024)
- Co-author, first systematic EU–China–US AI regulation comparison after the EU AI Act (2024)
- "A(I) University in Ruins" (PMLA 139.3, 2024)

## Pages

- [Research](https://katherineelkins.com/research): six research areas — AI safety and model evaluation; governance and public AI; sentiment analysis and narrative intelligence; philosophy of mind, literature, and information; AI creativity, authorship, translation, and co-creation; AI in higher education
- [Scholarly Reception](https://katherineelkins.com/reception): canonical record of named citers and uptake across AI safety, NLP, humanities, law, and policy venues
- [Recognition](https://katherineelkins.com/recognition): grants, standards work, press, and institutional recognition
- [Mentored Research](https://katherineelkins.com/mentored-research): undergraduate research mentorship in the Kenyon AI CoLab
- [Books](https://katherineelkins.com/books): books and edited volumes
- [Speaking](https://katherineelkins.com/speaking): keynotes and public lectures
- [Media](https://katherineelkins.com/media): press coverage and interviews
- [FAQ](https://katherineelkins.com/faq): definitions and routing for journalists, program officers, and students
- [Contact](https://katherineelkins.com/contact): speaking, media, and research inquiries
- [CV](https://katherineelkins.com/assets/katherine-elkins-cv.pdf)

## Profiles

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Elkins
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bUSgS6IAAAAJ
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9887-4854
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130369935