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5Rights Foundation
5Rights Foundation campaigns to make digital services answerable to children's rights. Founded by Beeban Kidron, it combines philanthropic support, technical-policy proposals and legislative work, including a documented paid lobbying operation supporting California's Age-Appropriate Design Code.
Supplier expertise shaping the market for age assuranceAge Verification Providers Association
The Age Verification Providers Association represents businesses selling age-verification and age-assurance services. Its influence is most visible where supplier evidence helps determine which methods regulators accept, and where interoperability projects propose how age credentials could move between services.
Campaign leadership, policy access and formal company authorityAndrea Miotti
Andrea Miotti is ControlAI’s founder and chief executive, with an earlier strategy and AI-policy role at Conjecture. He combines public advocacy and policy development with formal voting and appointment rights in the UK company behind the campaign, now registered as CONTROLAI.
Australian enforcement and safety-design ideas with international reachAustralian eSafety Commissioner
Australia's eSafety Commissioner is a regulator whose work combines enforceable online-safety standards, industry guidance and international policy exchange. It is also the institution that would gain expanded assessment and compliance powers under the September 2026 digital duty-of-care exposure draft.
Connecting advocacy organizations with parliamentary drafting and negotiationBeeban Kidron
Beeban Kidron founded 5Rights Foundation and serves in the UK House of Lords. Her work connects NGO campaigning with legislative negotiation: she has pressed for children's design protections, worked on age-assurance provisions and supported proposals restricting advanced AI.
Connects technical AI-risk work with wider public influenceCenter for AI Safety
The Center for AI Safety is a US nonprofit combining technical work on advanced-AI risks with public communication. Its connections include philanthropic grants, scientific and organizational leadership, and creator programmes. Its associated Action Fund is a separate organization with its own funding records.
Advocacy using payment access and safety-policy consultationCollective Shout
Collective Shout is an Australian advocacy organization that campaigns against the sexual exploitation and objectification of women and girls. Its July 2025 payment-company campaign sought to pressure game platforms through their financial intermediaries, and it has advocated broad online-message scanning in Australian consultations.
A shared technical and organizational origin for campaign leadersConjecture
Conjecture was founded in 2022 as a venture-backed AI-alignment company. Several people later central to ControlAI worked there, including Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti and Eva Behrens. Leahy’s March 2026 retrospective described the company’s operational ending and his move into ControlAI US.
Connects public persuasion to proposed AI prohibitionsControlAI
ControlAI campaigns to prevent the development of artificial superintelligence. It combines legislative proposals, briefings for politicians, creator partnerships and public mobilization, with organizations in the UK and United States. Its work connects arguments about AI catastrophe to proposals for enforceable limits on who may build advanced systems.
Public rules, funding and supervision of private complianceEuropean Commission
The European Commission combines digital rulemaking, enforcement and research funding. It appears here through child-safety policy engagement, AI4TRUST funding, platform-data access procedures and binding AliExpress commitments overseen by a Commission-approved monitor paid by the company.
ControlAI special projectsEva Behrens
A ControlAI special-projects lead and director of its UK operating company, with earlier operations work at Conjecture.
Connects funded creator development to institutional communication needsFrame Fellowship
Frame Fellowship supports creators making AI-related media through stipends, training and institutional contacts. Its programme includes an independent-creator track and an organization-amplifier track working with partner organizations. That makes it a practical meeting point for funding, creator careers and AI-safety communications.
Combines scientific authority, philanthropic resources and policy advocacyFuture of Life Institute
The Future of Life Institute is a nonprofit working on catastrophic risks, especially those associated with advanced AI. Co-founded by Max Tegmark and Jaan Tallinn, it combines research, public advocacy, policy relationships and grants, supported by a substantial financial structure involving related foundations.
Converts private wealth into sustained research and institutional capacityGood Ventures
Good Ventures is the foundation created by Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz, the Facebook and Asana co-founder. It turns their wealth into grants across global health, science, animal welfare and risks from advanced AI, with Coefficient Giving serving as its philanthropic adviser.
Independent games marketplaceitch.io
A platform for independent games that removed adult content from discovery during a 2025 dispute involving payment providers.
Holds and supplies resources within FLI’s financial structureLightcone Foundation
Lightcone Foundation is a Nevada charity within the Future of Life Institute’s financial network, with US tax identifier 92-0636259. It holds and transfers substantial resources associated with FLI. It is separate from Lightcone Infrastructure, the organization operating LessWrong and Lighthaven.
Scientific prominence joined to organizational leadership and policy accessMax Tegmark
Max Tegmark is a physicist and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, identified by FLI as its founder and chair. He brings scientific prominence to AI-risk advocacy and holds institutional roles that connect public arguments, philanthropic governance and access to political audiences.
Connects technical arguments, creators and political mobilizationMax Winga
Max Winga is ControlAI’s Creator Outreach & Systems Lead, with a background in engineering physics and AI research. He works where technical arguments become public communication: creator partnerships, production support and calls for audiences to contact political representatives. Frame also lists him as a past mentor.
Financing durable capacity across competing approaches to digital governanceOak Foundation
Oak Foundation is a major philanthropic source behind several of this investigation's most connected organizations. Its grants support child-protection advocacy, advertising-risk work and digital-rights challenges. The foundation traces its resources to the Duty Free Shoppers business associated with Alan Parker.
The UK campaign’s legal governance and financesSecure Future Research
CONTROLAI is the UK company formerly named Secure Future Research Ltd. It is the legal organization behind the UK ControlAI campaign, with company number 15088415. The name changed on 10 September 2026; older financial records and donations still use Secure Future Research.
Ethereum co-founder & donorVitalik Buterin
An Ethereum co-founder whose 2021 SHIB-token support helped finance Future of Life Institute work.
Government, industry and philanthropy meeting around child-protection policyWeProtect Global Alliance
WeProtect Global Alliance brings governments, technology companies and civil-society organizations together around online child sexual exploitation and abuse. It combines policy access, commissioned research and public campaigning, with a funding history that includes the UK Home Office and Oak Foundation.
Vulnerability research and disclosure venue0DIN
AI security bug-bounty program associated with Mozilla in the event record; publisher of Pliny and Marco Figueroa’s Basilisk Venom article.
AI-governance proposalA Narrow Path
A ControlAI-promoted framework proposing restrictions and oversight intended to prevent loss of control over advanced AI.