MATS Residency campaign, featuring Ryan Kidd
Campaign · sizzle reel + extended interview
About 30,000 views in the first 24 hours, and Residency applications doubled.
Amina Green
creator, researcher & writer, curious about
our relationship to machines
currently: making AI safety media @ MATS Research
Work
Research, data and media, mostly about people and the machines they live with.
Frame Fellowship
Making video essays, interviews and campaigns on AI safety and governance.
AI Governance Can't Wait for a Treaty
Interview · featuring Erik Leklem
International AI agreements, verification and compute governance, with a former Department of Defense official.
Lessons from the Information Age
Video essay
What the information age can teach us about the shift into the intelligence age.
Upcoming interviews
AI Safety and China
with Ran Sun
with Ran Sun
Who Is Liable When AI Goes Wrong?
with Anita Srinivasan
with Anita Srinivasan
Can We Verify AI Compute?
with Atharva Nihalani
with Atharva Nihalani
Head of Data & Growth
Led data strategy and growth for a venture-backed creator-economy platform.
- Grew the platform from 15,000 to 100,000 monthly users and reached $1M ARR within a year.
- Built embedding-based ML models for content classification and discovery.
- Automated Python outreach pipelines that increased user engagement.
- Ran mixed-methods research behind 4 major feature launches.
- Set up the company's data infrastructure and documentation.
Research & Growth
- Ran the organization's X account.
- Designed, built and deployed an internal research tool in Python using Perplexity's Sonar API.
- Designed and evaluated datasets for the Bridging Bot project, a Google-funded social computing initiative.
- Analyzed 400+ technical papers to build the organization's research knowledge base.
- Facilitated research discussions on governance and ethics at industry conferences.
HCI research
Affective computing and how people respond to emotion-aware technology. My final research work was used in a BCI-enabled agent for professional upskilling.
About
Hi, I'm Amina. I'm from Michigan, and I spent a few years in Japan as a J-pop idol.
After that I worked in tech, running data and growth at startups.
Now I'm back in media, making videos and writing.
A few highlights:
2026Frame Fellow, Cohort 2.0 — a fellowship for AI-focused creators, making media about AI safety.
2023–26Research & Growth at Plurality Institute.
2022–25Head of Data & Growth at MintStars — grew the platform from 15k to 100k monthly users and $1M ARR in a year.
ongoingCo-founded cybernetics//circle, a monthly reading group in San Francisco.
ongoingWriting & video on AI, desire and internet culture, read by ~20k people on X.
forthcomingEssay, "Doll Baby", commissioned for the Mirror Mirror zine (2dcloud).
2024MS, Human-Computer Interaction, UC Santa Cruz — research on emotion-aware technology.
2020BA, Sociology, University of East London.
2019Consultant on HBO's Tokyo Vice.
2016Judges' runner-up award, Kodansha's Miss iD 2016.
2015Twitch stream host, Tokyo Game Show with Bandai Namco.
Writing & video
Feeling Machines
Newsletter on affective computing. feelingmachines.substack.com
Bimbollectual
Newsletter on sociology, philosophy and internet culture. bimbollectual.com
Video
Interviews and short essays on AI and the people building it. youtube.com/@amina-io
Work with me
Open to roles, research collaborations and speaking. The fastest way to reach me is email.