Oren Etzioni

Oren Etzioni: AI Pioneer and Founder of TrueMedia.org

Oren Etzioni is a renowned AI researcher, entrepreneur, and the founder of TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating political deepfakes. Some key facts about Oren Etzioni:

• He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) from 2013 to 2022.123

• He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, where he helped pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and open information extraction.123

• He has authored over 200 technical papers, achieving an H-index of 100 (100 papers cited over 100 times each).123

• He has founded several companies, including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft) and Decide.com (acquired by eBay).13

• He is the technical director of the AI2 Incubator and a Venture Partner at Madrona.123

• In 2024, he founded TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit using AI to create a nonpartisan, free, and accessible dashboard to combat political disinformation by identifying manipulated media and AI-based forgery across social media platforms.345

Etzioni is stepping down from his board seat at AI2 to focus on TrueMedia.org, while continuing his work with the AI2 Incubator, Madrona, and the University of Washington.4 The initial TrueMedia team includes operations, engineering, partnerships, research, and design experts.4