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AI systems don’t just generate outputs - they shape real-world decisions
Models are decision-making actors, not passive tools
Accuracy  without context breaks down in practice
Failures emerge under ambiguity and time pressure
Trust depends on communicating uncertainty



SELECTED WRITING
2026 The Microsoft-Northwestern-WITNESS Benchmark for Deepfake Detection - IEEE Intelligent Systems
2026 How AI Content Detection is Being Weaponized in the Iran War - Tech Policy
2026 Probable Cause - Documentary Magazine
2026 The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored - Tech Policy
2025 Five Things 2025 Taught Us About AI Deception and Detection - Tech Policy
2025 Constructing Authenticity - Documentary Magazine
2025 How AI Ate Satire - Documentary Magazine
2025 AI is undermining OSINT’s core assumptions. Here’s how journalists should adapt - Reuters Institute
2025 TRIED: Truly Innovative and Effective AI Detection Benchmark, arXiv
2025 Five Real-World Failures Expose Need for Effective Detection of AI-Generated Media - Tech Policy
2025 The Synthesis: We Must Protect Human Creativity from Being Flattened by AI - Documentary Magazine
2025 The Synthesis: ‘Deepfaking Sam Altman’ Director Adam Bhala Lough Says Documentarians Should Get Good Lawyers - Documentary Magazine
2025 Deepfakes and Digital Abuse: Dismantling Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence - WITNESS blog, following our submitted recommendations to the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
2025 Human Rights Can Be the Spark of AI Innovation Not Stifle it - Tech Policy
2025 French AI Action Summit: Critical Information Actors Must Be Centered in Public Interest AI - WITNESS blog
2024 The Synthesis: Piotr Winiewicz on the “Surprisingly Ordinary Dreams” Generated by AI in His IDFA Opening Film - Documentary Magazine
2024 Toward Equitable and Effective AI Detection Tools: A Call for Standards That Serve All Communities - WITNESS blog
2024 The Synthesis: AI is Everywhere, Even in Your Documentary - Documentary Magazine
2024 Audiovisual Generative AI and Conflict Resolution: Trends, Threats and Mitigation Strategies - WITNESS report 
2024 Spotting Deepfakes in this Year of Elections: How AI Detection Tools Work and Where They Fail - Reuters Institute
2023 The Thorny Art of Deepfake Labeling - WIRED 
2023 Using Generative AI for Human Rights Advocacy - WITNESS blog
2020 Drawing the inner world of a story using GauGAN - Towards Data Science magazine.
2020 A tool for collaborating over GAN’s latent space - Towards Data Science magazine.
2020 Small family: small dataset - Towards Data Science magazine.
2019 Volume: 3D reconstruction using machine learning. UnMediated (Journal of Politics and Communication, print).
2019 Family2Family. Immerse online magazine.
2018 Urban Spaces and Politics. Looking Forward, Looking Back: Interactive Digital Storytelling and Hybrid Art-Scholarship Approaches. Carnegie Mellon University publication (book / print).
2018 Volume: 3D reconstruction of history for immersive platforms - SIGGRAPH
2018 when machines look for order in chaos. Immerse magazine.
2018 The plates of the world: reinterpreting a collection of mass-produced memorabilia. Immerse magazine.
2018 Volume: 3D reconstruction of history in immersive platforms. Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Poster Program SIGGRAPH 2018.
2018 Why We Need to Start Talking About the Mental States of Our Machines. Immerse magazine.
2018 Accessible AI tools. _Docubase.
2017 5 reasons why I believe AI can have mental illness. Becoming human magazine.
2017 Watch with your body. Takriv- Israeli Documentary Magazine.
2017 Tzina: symphony of longing. Google WebVR experiments.
2016 Tzina: Symphony of conclusion.Volumetric Filmmakingmagazine. 







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