Media
Coverage, interviews, audio, and public scholarship.
Press
Selected reporting, interviews, and coverage on AI safety, cultural heritage, and the humanities.
Panel with Michael Inzlicht and Sean Westwood at the 2nd Annual Ohio Civics Centers Symposium, Salmon P. Chase Center, Ohio State University.
Quoted as a NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium contributor.
Lead subject, Schmidt Sciences / HAVI project.
By Paul Baier.
On Frontiers in CS translation research.
Debate with Boris Eldagsen and Shane Balkowitsch.
Podcasts & Audio
Conversations on AI creativity, translation, higher education, and public-facing humanities research.
Press Kit
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Katherine Elkins is an AI safety researcher and Co-Founder of the Human-Centered AI Lab. She co-leads the MLA team at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium and is Co-PI of a Schmidt Sciences Archival Intelligence project. Author, The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge UP). Professor, Kenyon College.
Katherine Elkins works at the intersection of AI safety, computational humanities, cognitive science, and philosophy of information. Since 2016, she has developed research and teaching on how AI changes creativity, interpretation, judgment, and institutional life, beginning with early human-centered AI curriculum work at Kenyon College.
Her work moves across academic, technical, policy, and public settings. She co-leads the team representing the MLA at the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium and is Co-PI of a Schmidt Sciences HAVI grant for the Archival Intelligence project. 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.
