Mr. Zacharia Rupp is cofounder and president of Lono Collective, a worker-owned and democratically governed artificial intelligence cooperative focused on the longitudinal evaluation of epistemic integrity in conversational AI systems. His work examines how degradation in epistemic integrity—an area often overlooked in conventional AI safety benchmarking—can create risks in mental health and clinical correctional health applications. Previously, Mr. Rupp served as head of data delivery at Pareto.AI, where he built and led teams responsible for complex, high-competency data collection projects supporting model training. In that role, he collaborated with frontier AI organizations, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and xAI. Mr. Rupp holds a Master of Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Central Oklahoma. His interdisciplinary background informs his interest in language, perception, and the societal impact of conversational AI systems.