Talks & keynotes
Katherine Elkins speaks on AI safety, governance, creativity, cultural heritage, and democracy. NIST AI Safety Institute PI. Available for keynotes, panels, workshops, and expert consultations.
Recent Keynotes & Invited Talks
AI and Democracy
Ohio State University. Invited talk on AI, democratic institutions, and governance.
OpenAI Higher Education Forum
Selected Education Guild speaker at OpenAI's invitation-only forum in San Francisco. Presented computational humanities research and human-centered AI curriculum.
OpenAI Higher Education Forum, San Francisco, October 2025.
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar — METC Conference
Keynote on AI and the humanities at Weill Cornell's international campus in Doha, addressing narrative medicine and high-stakes clinical decision-making.
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, METC Conference, Doha, October 2025.
RALLY Innovation Conference
Spoke on human algorithms and the intersection of narrative, emotion, and AI systems. Indianapolis.
RALLY Innovation Conference, Indianapolis, 2025.
UNESCO MONDIACULT
Expert consultation on AI frameworks for multilingual cultural preservation and digital heritage. Part of UNESCO's global initiative on AI and culture.
ICML 2024 Oral
Oral presentation (top 2% acceptance) of "Near to Mid-term Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI" at the International Conference on Machine Learning.
Meta Open Innovation
Presented research on linguistic vulnerabilities in large language models at Meta's AI Research Community gathering.
Helix Center Roundtables
Roundtable discussions on AI, language, and emotion with Ned Block, Francesca Rossi, Joseph LeDoux, and Rosalind Picard.
The Helix Center, October 2022. With Ned Block, Francesca Rossi, and Kyunghyun Cho.
Full Engagements
| 2026 | Christian Science Monitor (expert quote) · NPR/WOSU (Archival Intelligence) · AI and Democracy, Ohio State University (invited, April) |
| 2025 | CHE Virtual Forum · OpenAI Higher Ed Forum · RALLY Innovation · Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (keynote) · Yale Alumni in AI · NIST AISIC (PI, plenary) · Concordia College · Smith College · ICML 2025 (accepted) · Forbes feature · Schmidt Sciences (Archival Intelligence) |
| 2024 | ICML 2024 (oral, Vienna) · UNESCO MONDIACULT (Cairo) · Meta Open Innovation (London) · Bloomberg AI Strategy · Lafayette College · Austin College · Carleton College · Yale · Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2023 | Helix Center Emotion roundtable · Concordia University Montreal (invited lecture) · Wofford College · McGill/Pitt/CMU · University of Tennessee, Knoxville · Al Jazeera |
| 2022 | Helix Center NLG roundtable × 2 |
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