Senior Technologist
Amy Winecoff is the Senior Technologist at the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) at Georgetown University. Her work focuses on developing technically informed, empirically grounded approaches to strengthen technology policy and governance, with particular attention to protecting individuals affected by digital technologies.
She has extensive expertise in AI governance, especially in the areas of transparency, evaluation, and mental health. Her research has appeared in academic venues such as RecSys, CHI, AIES, and First Monday, as well as in policy publications including Tech Policy Press and Compiler. She has also served as a responsible technology advisor to startup accelerators. Earlier in her career, as a data scientist, she developed and deployed production-scale recommendation systems for e-commerce companies.
Previously, she was a researcher at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), and an assistant professor at Bard College. She holds a PhD in Psychology and Neuroscience from Duke University, bringing a social science perspective to her work on technology policy and governance.
KGI’s Age Assurance Rules provides practical recommendations for designing age assurance rules that support youth online safety while appropriately accounting for tradeoffs involving privacy, service availability, competition, and openness.
KGI’s Assigning Responsibility for Age Assurance examines how policymakers can allocate responsibility for age assurance across the digital ecosystem. It provides practical recommendations for assigning age assurance obligations in ways that support youth online safety while appropriately accounting for tradeoffs involving privacy, competition, accessibility, and openness.
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As social media and generative AI chatbot lawsuits in the United States proceed to discovery and trial, courts are emerging as central actors in shaping technology governance, platform accountability, and online safety. A new report by the Knight-Georgetown Institute, Tech Justice Law, and the USC Marshall School Neely Center provides a practical, evidence-based framework to help courts, litigators, and policymakers craft effective and enforceable remedies for harms associated with social media platforms and AI chatbots.
Peter Chapman, Alissa Cooper, Amy Winecoff, Tiffany Gillis Brown, Melodi Dinçer, Meetali Jain, Sarah Kay Wiley, Ravi Iyer
