Amy Beth Cyphert is an Associate Professor at the West Virginia University College of Law. Cyphert is a Morgantown native and a 2001 graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where she was awarded a Truman Scholarship.
Cyphert graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2005 and went on to clerk for the Honorable Laura Taylor Swain in the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining WVU, Cyphert was a senior litigation associate with WilmerHale in New York City, where she focused on complex commercial litigation as well as First Amendment pro bono matters.
Cyphert developed and teaches courses on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, including Regulating AI. Her recent research has focused on generative artificial intelligence, its impact on the practice of law, as well as copyright implications. She has also written about technology regulation and algorithmic decision-making in the criminal justice system. In 2021, Cyphert received the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum for her article on machine-learning algorithms and online surveillance.
