Gabriel Alfour → Middle-powers ASI proposal
Coauthor
2025-11
November 2025 paper also coauthored by Alex Amadori; proposes state coalition, export controls/sanctions and specified self-defence redlines, not automatic obligation to wage war.
Technical-company experience carried into policy design
Gabriel Alfour
Gabriel Alfour co-founded Conjecture and is listed by ControlAI as an adviser who helped Andrea Miotti establish the organisation. He also co-authored a November 2025 proposal for middle-power governments to constrain artificial-superintelligence development.
The documented trajectory
Conjecture’s 2022 launch names Alfour alongside Connor Leahy and Sid Black. ControlAI attributes founding assistance to him, while the middle-powers paper names him with Miotti, Eva Behrens and Alex Amadori. Its proposed tools include export controls, sanctions and specified self-defence red lines. Authorship establishes participation in that policy argument, not governmental acceptance of it.
What the records show
Gabriel Alfour → Conjecture
Cofounder
2022 launch; historical
2022 launch also names Sid Black. March 2026 retrospective describes operational ending, not corporate dissolution.
Gabriel Alfour → ControlAI
Adviser; founding assistance
Observed 2026-09-05
Organization says he helped Andrea establish ControlAI. No money transfer established.
From the investigation
Most consequential findings
The bridge persists through people with current ControlAI roles: its about page identifies Conjecture cofounder Connor Leahy as US Executive Director, and Conjecture cofounder Gabriel Alfour as an adviser who helped Andrea establish ControlAI. The same page lists former UK Defence Secretary Des Browne as adviser, identifying his Nuclear Threat Initiative and European Leadership Network leadership. These are specific organizational access channels; their outside institutions are not thereby ControlAI funders or endorsers. [M05]
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3 relationshipsGabriel Alfour → Adviser; founding assistance → ControlAI
Observed 2026-09-05
Organization says he helped Andrea establish ControlAI. No money transfer established.
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Gabriel Alfour → Cofounder → Conjecture
2022 launch; historical
2022 launch also names Sid Black. March 2026 retrospective describes operational ending, not corporate dissolution.
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Gabriel Alfour → Coauthor → Middle-powers ASI proposal
2025-11
November 2025 paper also coauthored by Alex Amadori; proposes state coalition, export controls/sanctions and specified self-defence redlines, not automatic obligation to wage war.