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Katherine Elkins is an AI safety researcher and Co-Founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab. She serves as the MLA's PI in the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium and leads a Schmidt Sciences Archival Intelligence project. Author, The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge UP). Professor, Kenyon College.
Katherine Elkins writes about AI as a genuinely new kind of intelligence — what it actually does to human creativity, authority, and knowing, and why the dominant frameworks for understanding it keep getting the answer wrong. She has been working at this question since 2016, when she co-founded what is documented as the world’s first human-centered AI curriculum.
She serves as the MLA’s Principal Investigator in the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium and leads a Schmidt Sciences HAVI grant for the Archival Intelligence project. She is working on a series of essays arguing that the economists, computer scientists, and policy experts now weighing in on AI are each missing the same thing. Her research has been presented at ICML and covered in Forbes, the Christian Science Monitor, and NPR.
She is the author of The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and a professor at Kenyon College.
