Publications

Publications & selected work

Selected work by Human-Centered AI Lab researchers and collaborators. Our research spans AI safety and evaluation, cross-cultural ethics, computational narrative, and AI governance, published across machine learning venues, humanities journals, and university presses.

Complete, up-to-date publication lists are maintained on the founders' scholarly profiles: Katherine Elkins (Google Scholar) and Jon Chun. This page is expanding; selected representative work appears below.

Books

  • Elkins, K. (2022). The Shapes of Stories: Sentiment Analysis for Narrative. Cambridge University Press.
  • Elkins, K., ed. (2022). Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press.

AI Safety, Evaluation & Governance

  • Two papers under review at AIES 2026 (cross-cultural ethical auditing of frontier models). Titles withheld pending double-blind review.

Additional peer-reviewed work on LLM evaluation, red-teaming, negation sensitivity, and comparative AI regulation (including venues such as ICML and UAI) is being added; see the Google Scholar profiles above for the full list.

Computational Narrative & AI in the Humanities

  • Elkins, K., & Chun, J. (2020). "Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?" Journal of Cultural Analytics.
  • Chun, J., & Elkins, K. (2023). "The Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: A New Digital Humanities Curriculum for Human-Centered AI." International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing.

Public Scholarship & Policy

Selected public scholarship and policy contributions — including UNESCO MONDIACULT expert consultation and the AI, IP & Culture Repository co-design process — are being compiled. See Grants & Affiliations for current partnerships.