Recent work first: an AI agent I'm building, my research on AI and credibility, and my writing. Below that, the media career it grew out of.
AI and verification · 2025 to present
An AI agent I designed and built. It mines an organization's calls, transcripts, decks and notes for true stories. It checks each claim against primary evidence, traces every story to its source, and gets a person's sign-off before anything is used.
It grew out of my work with XPRIZE. An AI-assisted pilot mined a 120 TB archive for human stories, and twenty story kernels were verified in 90 days.
Research · 2026
How AI handles evidence. As a UT Tower Fellow, I'm researching how AI-generated text keeps or exaggerates claims while dropping or swapping the evidence behind them. Paper in progress for the graduate seminar AI, Language, and Mind. The essay that started it: Why Your AI Keeps Changing What You Said.
Disclosing AI use. A framework for disclosing AI use based on how the work was made, as an alternative to AI detection. White paper in progress. The argument in short form: The Case for Provenance.
Writing
Anthropic's CHIVE paper, explained in plain English.
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Why AI summaries swap specific, true details for generic, plausible ones.
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The rise of generative AI has created a paradox: corporate messaging has never been more polished, and audiences have never been more suspicious of it. When the marginal cost of producing authoritative-sounding content drops to zero, generic assertions lose all strategic value.
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In December 2025, NeurIPS — the world's most prestigious machine learning conference — invited Zeynep Tufekci to speak. She's a sociologist at Princeton. She doesn't build AI systems — she studies what they do to institutions, to trust, to the mechanisms societies use to establish what's true.
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Media · 1990s to 2009
Nearly two decades in broadcast. I started in research at KMOL-TV (now WOAI) in San Antonio, deciding which audiences the station went after and how, then moved into marketing and creative services.
At NBC I was vice president of advertising, promotion and brand strategy for stations in Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles, and from 2002 for NBC-owned Telemundo stations in Chicago and Los Angeles. Working with our news directors, we took late-night news to first place in all three markets. The work won 3 Emmy Awards, 12 Muse Awards and a Gracie Award.
In Los Angeles I created and executive produced YourLA, a daily show built on user-generated content that premiered in 2006 and ran for two years.
Through Motive3, I led the launch of Mitu, a Latino multichannel network that drew a billion views in its first year, and built Kaiser Permanente's in-house national TV network.
Teaching and book
Taught undergraduate and graduate students at California Lutheran University (2012 to 2014) and working professionals at UCLA Extension (2014 to 2017).
Author of Deckonomics (2024), a framework for presentations that drive decisions.
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