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Governance, operations and policy research

Eva Behrens

A ControlAI special-projects lead and director of its UK operating company, with earlier operations work at Conjecture.

Background

UK filings record her voting and director appointment rights at Secure Future Research. Her professional site described Talos Network membership and Conjecture work. Those affiliations do not establish that a Talos donor earmarked support for her work.

What the records show

Eva BehrensPersistent electronic-ID identifiers

Authored eID design position

2022-10-18

Argues for unique persistent identifiers in European electronic IDs on reliability/privacy grounds. Does not establish universal online identity or involvement in age-verification campaigns.

Eva BehrensMiddle-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.

Eva BehrensCentre for Future Generations

Former policy researcher

Through 2025-01

Professional history dates CFG work end January 2025; no current employment inferred.

Eva BehrensFederation of German Industries

Prior industrial-policy work

Before October 2022

2022 biography references industrial policy and Sino-European relations.

Eva BehrensControlAI

Special Projects Lead

Observed 2026-09-05

Operational biography; detailed budget-signature arrangements unknown.

From the investigation

Legal identity and control

Andrea Miotti and Eva Christa Annelore Behrens are the two active UK directors, appointed 22 August 2023. Each is also a person with significant control: more than 25% but no more than 50% voting rights, and right to appoint/remove directors. Nicolas Michel Pierre Moës was a director and PSC from incorporation until 7 November 2023. Do not turn Miotti's founder title into sole legal control. ControlAI's current about page identifies Andrea Miotti as founder/CEO, Connor Leahy as US Executive Director, Eva Behrens as Special Projects Lead, Max Winga as Creator Outreach & Systems Lead, and Des Browne and Gabriel Alfour as advisors. It describes Leahy and Alfour as Conjecture cofounders and Alfour as having helped Andrea found ControlAI. This is personnel/organizational overlap, not proof of money transfers from Conjecture.

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5. Conjecture resources and personnel transition

New corroboration for previous Behrens findings: https://www.talosnetwork.org/perspectives/alumni-newsletter-october-2025 . Opened/read, dated October14,2025, author David Conrad. Latest Publications explicitly identifies Behrens as Summer2022 alumna and reports Conjecture/ControlAI coauthorship. This upgrades the earlier indexed-only Talos cohort observation to a read primary publisher source; no fellowship payment or donor earmark follows from it.

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Governance and the financial boundary

The UK entity is Secure Future Research Ltd, company 15088415, trading as ControlAI. Miotti and Eva Christa Annelore Behrens have each been directors since incorporation on 22 August 2023; each has more than 25% but no more than 50% of voting rights plus a right to appoint/remove directors. Nicolas Michel Pierre Moes was a director and PSC until 7 November 2023. These records support shared legal control. They do not disclose which individual makes each operational decision. [L01-L03]

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Findings

Behrens has material formal authority at Secure Future Research Ltd (company 15088415, the UK ControlAI entity identified in the parent investigation), in addition to the public-facing Special Projects Lead title. Companies House lists her as an active director appointed 22 August 2023 and an active person with significant control: more than 25% and no more than 50% of voting rights, plus rights to appoint/remove directors. Andrea Miotti is the other active director/PSC. Nicolas Moes resigned/ceased control on 7 November 2023. These are registered declarations, not proof of each person's day-to-day decisions. Do not call the voting percentage an equity share in a company limited by guarantee.

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Further reading

Baseline evidence custody

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What the connections say

10 relationships
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Eva BehrensSpecial Projects LeadControlAI

Observed 2026-09-05

Operational biography; detailed budget-signature arrangements unknown.

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Eva BehrensSelf-reported membershipTalos Network

Historical; read 2026-09-05

Reported by the cited source

Membership supported by personal site. Specific 2022 cohort detail less securely rendered; no donor earmarking for her fellowship established.

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AI & money

Who funds the AI debate?

Large grants, creator programmes and policy campaigns are visible. Their arrangements differ in how much control they give a sponsor.

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