The Cognitive Frontier: Who Owns Your Mind?

​One evening at the edge of mind and machine.

​The Cognitive Security Task Force at Stanford HAI presents an evening with the people shaping human attention, perception, memory, judgment, and decision-making.

​Part salon, part night market, part open studio field trip—we're kickstarting conversations across AI, neuroscience, media, health, business, and policy to discuss what emerging technologies mean for cognitive security and liberty.

​Featuring:

• ​Lightning talks and panels with innovators and researchers from neurotech and BCI companies, consumer health startups, and frontier AI labs, including:

  • ​Emma Zhou - Cofounder & Director of BCI Research, Science

  • ​Andreas Tolias - Director, The Enigma Project, Stanford Medicine

  • ​Jonathan Xu - CEO, Alljoined

  • ​Alex Feerst - Chief Legal Officer, Science

  • ​Julie Cachia - Cofounder, Flourish Science

  • ​Nathalie Gouailhardou - Cofounder, Neurode

  • ​Walter Johnson - Fellow, Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences

  • ​Felix Sosa, CEO of stealth neolab

  • ​Matt Goerzen, Harvard History of Science

  • ​Jon Kreindler - President & Cofounder at Receptivi

  • ​Mylea Charvat - Clinical Neuroscientist & Entrepreneur-in-Residence, DigitalDx Ventures

• ​Research showcases, interactive demos, and booths such as wearable brain-computer interfaces and persuasion tools you can talk to, including:

  • ​AI persuasion demo by Batu El - Stanford Computational and Mathematical Engineering

  • ​Collective action/choice architecture adjustment demo by Jonathan Braunstein - Founder, Spartacus

  • ​Media Content Atlas interactive from the Screenomics Lab at Stanford

  • ​The AI Effect game by Ali Lee and Hannah Groos - the Rithm Project

  • ​Mindshield demo by Shon Pan

  • ​Personalized Turing Test by Andreas Haupt - Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

​And more. Come curious. Art and light refreshments included.

​Part of Human+Tech Week 2026.

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