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Advocacy bridge between sexual-exploitation campaigning and broader AI-policy opposition
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation is an advocacy organisation appearing as a co-signatory in both the July 2025 payment campaign and a separate coalition letter opposing a federal moratorium on state AI regulation. It also has disclosed research and philanthropic support tied to distinct purposes.
Haley McNamara signed the 10 July payment letter for NCOSE. The organisation also appears among more than 140 signatories to the 30 June AI-moratorium letter. A National Institute of Justice record shows a research award first made in 2020, with total funding of US$239,946 and closed status, for sex-trafficking demand-reduction research. The Jensen Project identifies policy-grant support across 2021–2025, and the Pentecost foundation page names support without a verified amount. None of those records earmarks funds for the gaming campaign.
The Jensen Project → NCOSE
2021–2025
Jensen identifies NCOSE as a 2021–2025 policy grantee, describing law-centre work, survivor participation, research, convening and awareness. No independently verified amount or approval rights.
US National Institute of Justice → NCOSE
First award 2020; closed by 2026-09-07
NIJ award 2020-75-CX-0011, first awarded 2020, total funding to date US$239,946 and closed. Purpose: sex-trafficking demand-reduction research; not evidence of gaming-campaign funding.
Pentecost family foundation → NCOSE
Observed 2026-09-07
Family foundation page says it supports NCOSE. Secondary dollar figures were not inspected in primary returns and are excluded; no current board/control inference.
NCOSE → June 2025 AI moratorium letter
2025-06-30
NCOSE appears among more than 140 organisations opposing the federal moratorium on state AI regulation. A bounded joint advocacy act, not a general alliance.
NCOSE → July 2025 payment campaign
2025-07-10
Haley McNamara signed for NCOSE. Public campaign endorsement; no transfer of funds or directing authority established.
Interpretation: NCOSE connects these two public advocacy episodes. The broad letter establishes a shared policy position and joint advocacy act. It supplies no evidence that FLI funded Collective Shout, directed its payment campaign, or participated in its Australian advisory appointment. No direct Collective Shout relationship with CAIS, ControlAI or the named Ban Deepfakes campaign was established in this bounded search. Non-discovery is not proof of absence. Collective Shout advocating restrictions on deepfakes is not, by itself, membership in that particular campaign.
Read the research & sources ↗The strongest specific cross-network bridge is Collective Shout's joint payment letter with NCOSE. Separately, NCOSE and the Future of Life Institute signed a broad US AI-policy coalition letter. This supports two documented campaign overlaps, not a direct Collective Shout–FLI partnership, shared funding or common direction.
Read the research & sources ↗NCOSE → Co-signed through Haley McNamara → July 2025 payment campaign
2025-07-10
Haley McNamara signed for NCOSE. Public campaign endorsement; no transfer of funds or directing authority established.
NCOSE → Co-signatory → June 2025 AI moratorium letter
2025-06-30
NCOSE appears among more than 140 organisations opposing the federal moratorium on state AI regulation. A bounded joint advocacy act, not a general alliance.
US National Institute of Justice → US$239,946 research award → NCOSE
First award 2020; closed by 2026-09-07
NIJ award 2020-75-CX-0011, first awarded 2020, total funding to date US$239,946 and closed. Purpose: sex-trafficking demand-reduction research; not evidence of gaming-campaign funding.
The Jensen Project → Policy grant support; amount unknown → NCOSE
2021–2025
Jensen identifies NCOSE as a 2021–2025 policy grantee, describing law-centre work, survivor participation, research, convening and awareness. No independently verified amount or approval rights.
Pentecost family foundation → Named philanthropic support → NCOSE
Observed 2026-09-07
Family foundation page says it supports NCOSE. Secondary dollar figures were not inspected in primary returns and are excluded; no current board/control inference.