Known as the ‘Abogamer’, Mantegna is a video game lawyer and activist, renowned for her expertise in AI ethics, extended reality (XR) policy, and the complex relationship between artificial intelligence, creativity, culture, and copyright law.

​In 2022, Mantegna was chosen for the TED Fellowship, with her TED talk on the ethics of the metaverse earning 1.5M+ views globally.

She has been an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, while also serving on the World Economic Forum’s Metaverse Council, and Chatham House’s Responsible AI Taskforce. She is currently an affiliate at MetaLAB (Harvard, Berlin, Basel), a Salzburg Global Fellow, and a Datasphere Initiative Fellow.

Author of ARTficial: Creativity, AI and Copyright (2022) and the upcoming Braindancing in the Metaverse: A Capitalism of Cognitive Surveillance (2025), her work explores in depth the implications of digital capitalism, at the intersections of creativity, neuroscience, intellectual property, ethics, and aesthetics of AI.