Amina Green — Videos about technology and society

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About

I'm Amina Green. I make videos about technology and society, and have a professional and academic background in computer science and social science.

I previously worked as an idol in Japan under the name aminyan or Amina du Jean. Now I'm a video producer, writer and technologist in San Francisco, and a Frame Fellow making AI safety videos with Machine Alignment, Transparency, and Security (MATS).

I also host events and salons in SF that bring people together!

I started private Japanese lessons at eleven, in my small Michigan town, and streaming on Nico Nico Douga not long after.

Around the same time I made a chiptune album with the Detroit collective Piko Piko Detroit, and played the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and smaller stages near Ann Arbor while still in high school.

I got a contract to perform as an idol in Japan and spent three years on television, including the variety show 「YOUは何しに日本へ？」, and on work with companies like Bandai Namco. I picked up an award in Kodansha's Miss iD 2016 and got written about in Forbes, Playboy Japan and The Japan Times. I also studied at Temple University Japan.

London, reading anthropology and sociology, with a dissertation on Eastern European women and labor. I sat on the board of TAMPEP and spoke at Amnesty International and an EU parliamentary meeting; my last major activism event was Stockholm in 2019.

A non-profit in San Francisco, then industry. I taught myself Python on nights and weekends.

A Master's in Computer Science and HCI, researching biosensing-enabled agents and empathic computing. Head of Data & Growth at a venture-backed creator economy start-up, MintStars. I also collaborated on human–AI interaction research for Bridging Bot at Plurality Institute.

Video and AI safety content at MATS, and my own on Instagram and X.

Treating the people immediately around me well is the thing I care about most. Integrity and joy seem like the most useful things I can offer.

My studies and early work went to the labor rights of migrant women, particularly from Eastern Europe and the Global South. I don't work in that field now, but I still care a great deal about the rights of people and other living beings.

Growing up around Detroit during de-industrialization, then working in labor rights and studying anthropology, made me attentive to what technology does to social infrastructure. That's what brought me to AI safety. I'm a capitalist, but I want public policy that helps people flourish under it — humane, and clear about where responsibility sits.

Right now that means building communities and helping others do the same. I've started a project called kanpai, connecting community stewards with corporate sponsors and individual patrons. Waitlist at kanpai.events.