A professional network supported by overlapping philanthropic institutions

Talos Network

Talos Network is a fellowship and membership network acknowledging support from FLI, Coefficient Giving and the Survival and Flourishing Fund. Eva Behrens reports membership, connecting it to a person later active in ControlAI.

Membership and donor independence

The donor disclosure gives no amounts or dates and says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. Behrens’s site supports membership; the specific 2022 cohort detail was less securely rendered. No earmark for her participation or onward payment to ControlAI is established. A restricted grant or individual fellowship award would be needed for those stronger financial claims.

What the records show

Eva BehrensTalos Network

Self-reported membership

Historical; read 2026-09-05

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

Future of Life InstituteTalos Network

Support disclosed; amount/date unspecified

Dates unspecified; read 2026-09-05

Talos disclosure says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. No onward ControlAI transfer established.

From the investigation

Findings

The most discriminating wider bridge is Talos Network: she self-reports membership, and the publisher's indexed alumni roster identifies her as a 2022 fellow. Talos acknowledges FLI, Coefficient Giving and Survival and Flourishing Fund support. However, the funding disclosure gives no dates or individual allocations, and expressly denies donor involvement in fellow selection, content and strategy. This is a funding-to-career-network connection, not evidence that these donors paid Behrens personally, financed her 2022 place, or command ControlAI.

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What the connections say

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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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Future of Life InstituteSupport disclosed; amount/date unspecifiedTalos Network

Dates unspecified; read 2026-09-05

Reported by the cited source

Talos disclosure says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. No onward ControlAI transfer established.

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Coefficient GivingSupport disclosed; amount/date unspecifiedTalos Network

Dates unspecified; read 2026-09-05

Reported by the cited source

Talos disclosure says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. No onward ControlAI transfer established.

Read the original source 1
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Survival and Flourishing FundSupport disclosed; amount/date unspecifiedTalos Network

Dates unspecified; read 2026-09-05

Reported by the cited source

Talos disclosure says funders do not select fellows, develop content or direct strategy. No onward ControlAI transfer established.

Read the original source 1