Financial Times · Quoted in · 2026
Reading Proust in the age of TikTok
Josh Spero quotes Elkins on reading Proust amid fragmented attention and changing media habits.
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Selected reporting, interviews, broadcasts, and long-form conversations about AI behavior, cultural memory, creativity, governance, and education.
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Los Angeles Review of Books · Research discussed · December 20, 2025
“When Story Loses the Plot”
Hannah H. Kim draws on Elkins’s research into emotional structure and plotless narrative to examine how stories create meaning through mood, character, and emotional arcs.
Read the essay →The Christian Science Monitor · Quoted in · February 20, 2026
“As AI leaps forward, concern rises that innovation is leaving safety behind”
Consulted as a NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium contributor on emerging AI risk, manipulation, safety evaluation, and the institutional responsibility to govern uncertainty before it becomes crisis.
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“Could artificial intelligence save endangered archives?”
Coverage of Archival Intelligence, a Schmidt Sciences HAVI project developing open AI tools to preserve endangered cultural archives without flattening the local knowledge that gives them meaning.
Read the coverage →Al Jazeera · The Stream · Interviewed on · May 11, 2023
“Is AI Better at Making Art Than Humans?”
A conversation with Boris Eldagsen and Shane Balkowitsch about generative AI, art, authorship, originality, and human creative judgment.
Watch →Forbes · Featured in · November 20, 2025
“Where AI Meets the Humanities: Inside Kenyon College’s Bold Experiment”
Coverage of Kenyon’s human-centered AI curriculum and the broader research program connecting the humanities, education, and AI.
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AI Safety & Governance
Katherine Elkins is quoted on AI safety, standards, manipulation, ethical evaluation, and the linguistic vulnerabilities conventional metrics can miss.
AI safety research →Creativity, Authorship & Culture
Engineering covered the translation research in “AI’s Talent for Translation Lowers Language Barriers” (2025); the Kenyon Collegian discussed ChatGPT, AI art, and their implications in 2023.
Creativity research →Memory, Archives & Humanistic AI
Coverage of Archival Intelligence asks how AI can support endangered archives, cultural preservation, and machine-readable heritage while retaining humanistic expertise and local context.
Archival Intelligence →Long-form conversations
Podcasts & audio
Humanity at Scale · June 2025
“From Homer to GPT: The Collision of Human Imagination and AI”
Narrative, creativity, and the long history behind generative AI.
Listen →Merging Minds · 2024
“Translating Worlds”
AI, literary translation, narrative, and what survives across languages.
Listen →The Helix Center · 2022
“Are Natural Language Generators for Real?”
Language generation, knowledge, philosophy of information, and machine intelligence.
Listen →The Helix Center · 2023
“Emotion”
Emotion across neuroscience, cognitive science, philosophy, computation, and human experience.
Listen →RadioAI · March 2023
“ChatGPT and Large Language Models”
Generative language systems and their consequences for writing and education.
Listen →Creative Velocity · February 2026
“AI Deep Dive”
A conversation about artificial intelligence, creativity, and human judgment.
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Katherine Elkins is an AI researcher and Professor at Kenyon College working on model behavior, human judgment, evaluation, agents, narrative, culturally grounded AI, and governance. She is Co-Principal Investigator of the Schmidt Sciences Archival Intelligence project and co-leads the five-member Modern Language Association team in the NIST CAISI AI Consortium.
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