Emily Cross took part in HumanTech Summit 2025 as a keynote speaker. The next edition is HumanTech Summit 2026, the English-language human-centered AI conference in Warsaw (3–5 December 2026, Central House of Technology).
Emily S. Cross is a Professor of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where she leads the Social Brain Sciences Lab. She and her team explore fundamental questions related to social perception and interaction, with a particular focus on fostering and sustaining meaningful encounters between humans and artificial agents, and how aesthetics shapes our interactions with other humans and AI. After completing her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College, she pursued postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute and has held faculty positions at Radboud University Nijmegen, Bangor University, University of Glasgow, and Macquarie and Western Sydney Universities. Emily also serves as a member of UNESCO’s International Bioethics Committee, where she has contributed to major reports surveying the ethical issues of emerging neurotechnologies and the mental health consequences of digital technologies for children and adolescents.