Micaela Mantegna

Change agent, Educator/Teacher, Social entrepreneur, Technologist

Hi there nice to meet you! 🙌 I am Micaela Mantegna, a video game lawyer and activist known as Abogamer (happy to tell you the story, just ask me in the halls!). Jokingly, I call myself "the Cassandra of tech ethics", blessed with foresight, doomed not to be listened to on time :D My research has always been ahead of the curve, predicting the AI revolution while it was considered yet sci-fi; then the battles of generative AI and copyright, and for the past years, talking about the upcoming deployment of neuroware interfaces to connect to digital experiences. Some facts about me: ✔️I published my first book "ARTficial: creativity, AI and copyright" in 2022, and it was an accurate forecast of the copyright wars with AI to come. I'm working now in my second book "BRAINDANCING IN THE METAVERSE: a capitalism of cognitive surveillance". ✔️I am a 2022 TED Fellow , and I ’ve been an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, served on the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Council, and contributed to Chatham House’s Responsible AI Taskforce. Currently, I’m an affiliate at MetaLAB (Harvard, Berlin, Basel), a Salzburg Global Fellow, and a Datasphere Initiative Fellow. ✔️As an activist, I am the founder of Women In Games Argentina (WIGAr), a non-profit working towards a more inclusive gaming industry; and a Women in Games International (WIGJ) Ambassador. ✔️I have been featured by EA in the official video of my favorite video game. Just ask me, it's great to start a conversation! ;) Here you can find more about me and my work: https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/micaela-mantegna

Geek culture! Creativity, video games, AI ethics. Copyright reform & 😺

🔴 Copyright won't work for Generative AI🔴 ✅Impact through chaotic kindness.

artificial intelligence ethics, copyright, ethics, metaverse, video games, XR

You can watch my TED talk "How to stop the metaverse from becoming the internet’s bad sequel" here = https://www.ted.com/talks/micaela_mantegna_how_to_stop_the_metaverse_from_becoming_the_internet_s_bad_sequel and read the companion piece expanding the topics, here = https://medium.com/@abogamer/how-to-stop-the-metaverse-from-becoming-the-internets-bad-sequel-975c19c46e4f

Freestyle slalom skating and a Magic The Gathering player.