Micaela Mantegna

Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and Ethics, Technology and Society (CETyS) Department, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires

Known as the 'Abogamer' (a pun mixing the words lawyer and gamer in Spanish) Micaela stands as an international expert in digital ethics, including XR policy, neurorights, and AI’s intersection with creativity and copyright.
As a TED Fellow, her talk on the metaverse earned 1.5M+ views globally.
Currently she is affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, while also serving on Chatham House’s AI Taskforce and the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Council, positioning Micaela as a global voice in AI ethics, videogames and metaverse policy.

Author of "ARTficial: creativity, AI and copyright" (2022) and the upcoming "Braindancing in the Metaverse: a capitalism of cognitive surveillance" (2024), her work explores in depth the implications of digital capitalism, at the intersections of intellectual property, AI, Art, and ethics. Her essay for the Yale Law Journal "Why copyright is not the right policy tool for Generative AI" is currently being translated to Chinese.

Amongst other 40 experts, she has contributed to the book "In defense of Neurorights", pondering the impact of Chile's Supreme Court in Emotiv's case, and she is part of the first university course in Argentina on Neurorights, AI and Ethics at San Andres University.

Micaela earned the 2017 Google Policy Fellowship for her work creating an algorithmic governance framework. Building on this recognition, she subsequently became the lead drafter of the ethics chapter of Argentina's National AI Plan in 2019. Currently, she lends her policy expertise to contribute to prominent global AI and metaverse reports.
Her insights are often sought by global platforms, leading to features in outlets like The Verge, WIRED, and Le Monde.
Micaela curates the popular Substack newsletter “This week in the ➡️ #Metaverse”, offering weekly insights into the latest trends and policy developments on the metaverse, AI, neurotech, crypto and gaming.

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