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Mateus De Souza is the creator associated with Future Tense. Frame describes him as a fellowship outcome and reports FLI funding; his May 2026 video supplies a creator-side disclosure naming FLI, Frame and BlueDot Impact as supporters.
Future Tense publicly says the named grant funders had no editorial control and that opinions are its own. This supports an independence claim for this output, not verified contract language or a universal practice.
Frame reports the funding outcome without supplying an agreement, amount or completed payment. The Dark Philosophy Driving AI Development was published on 8 May 2026. Its description names three grant supporters and denies their editorial control. Those statements should be reported together. They do not establish a Frame-to-FLI transfer or justify treating the supporters as buyers of a preapproved script.
Mateus De Souza / Future Tense → The Dark Philosophy Driving AI Development
Published 2026-05-08; description captured 2026-09-08
Future Tense publication dated 8 May 2026. Current description identifies three grant supporters and denies editorial control; description history and payment instruments not obtained.
Future of Life Institute → Mateus De Souza / Future Tense
Before 2026-09-05; exact date unknown
Funding assertion by program; grant agreement, amount and completed payment not read.
Frame Fellowship → Mateus De Souza / Future Tense
Before 2026-09-05
Program describes alumnus funding outcome; no Frame-to-FLI fiscal transfer inferred.
The strongest rival to a present-tense exclusion-network account is documented channel retirement combined with an unresolved current distribution route. Conversely, the retirement notice cannot establish that historical signals had no continuing use. A high-value next record would be the historical GDI–Oracle licence/service description or a current distribution agreement specifying publisher review, update/deletion propagation and recipient discretion. No further acquisition is undertaken in this packet.
Read the research & sources ↗Creator influence is not one arrangement. People First's published terms provide for approval, revisions, compliance and conditional payment; an individual campaign statement of work was not acquired. Frame describes an independent creator track and an institutional-brief track, names funding sources, and denies funder control over content or selection. A Future Tense creator publicly acknowledged support from FLI, Frame and BlueDot while asserting editorial independence. Rational Animations and ControlAI acknowledged a partnership, but the fee and agreement remain unacquired. The sponsor behind the initial Sabine Hossenfelder account remains unidentified. A2
Read the research & sources ↗Future of Life Institute → Creator funding reported by Frame → Mateus De Souza / Future Tense
Before 2026-09-05; exact date unknown
Reported by the cited source
Funding assertion by program; grant agreement, amount and completed payment not read.
Frame Fellowship → Fellow outcome reported → Mateus De Souza / Future Tense
Before 2026-09-05
Reported by the cited source
Program describes alumnus funding outcome; no Frame-to-FLI fiscal transfer inferred.
Mateus De Souza / Future Tense → published the grant-acknowledging video → The Dark Philosophy Driving AI Development
Published 2026-05-08; description captured 2026-09-08
Future Tense publication dated 8 May 2026. Current description identifies three grant supporters and denies editorial control; description history and payment instruments not obtained.