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AI ownership and board power — proposals
Compare El-Sayed’s proposed public board majority with Sanders’s proposed equity fund and commission.
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Money & institutions
Donors, foundations, grants, ownership and the obligations attached to resources.
Everything in this topic
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Andreessen: capital and policy
Follow Andreessen's personal political receipt, a16z's investment and advocacy routes, and Meta's documented corporate oversight role.
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BASI: money, research and lab access
Follow Pliny’s grant, reported contracts and the personnel links into credited frontier-lab testing.
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Digital-rights policy & funders
Follow the named relationships between the main participants in this part of the investigation.
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EA: money, media and new institutions
Follow funding into recruitment, new organizations and research capacity.
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Funding policy work and organizing
Multi-year philanthropy supports policy capacity; recurring organizing support has its own published conditions.
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Gates, Anthropic and public-service AI
Follow the joint programme and its institutional connections.
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GDI: public grants and EU research funding
FCDO reports support to the named GDI operation. The Commission records AI4TRUST project funding and a contribution for its German participant. These are two documented channels.
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How outside reports become vendor policy
DV describes selecting public NCMEC material, conducting further assessment and introducing a Highly Illicit category. IWF’s assessed URL input is separate from DV’s membership and contribution band.
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How pooled funding reaches media
A named fund manager, a charitable account, a fellowship and a documented film grant.
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Industry & electoral advocacy
Follow the named relationships between the main participants in this part of the investigation.
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Lightcone: loans and future-donation offsets
Two financing arrangements explain obligations that a donor list alone would miss.
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METR: funding, access and policy
Follow grants, lab access, people and public-sector work around the evaluator.
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MIRI: money and institutional responsibility
Follow historical donor support into the institution, then distinguish its leadership roles.
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Oak’s grants to five organisations
Oak reports three-year support to these five recipients. Each amount belongs to its own grant year and purpose. The arrows have equal weight; they do not measure financial influence.
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Oak’s grants to GDI and rights organisations
Oak’s 2023 report records four three-year awards. Each arrow retains its own amount and purpose. No grant is allocated to the later complaint or a named classification decision.
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Palantir: contracts and control
Karp's company connects AI suppliers to state operations. Its founders, customers, hosts and courts hold different powers.
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Policy drafting and organized public pressure
Compare a documented route into government guidance with PauseAI’s declared division of labor.
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Tallinn: funding routes and decision rights
Follow donor payments into ControlAI, grant allocation and AI-policy organizations.
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Test scores versus real-world results
AI4TRUST reports a final warning system, a textual component, a human-validation dashboard and user evaluation. Each finding belongs to its stated component and test.
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The EA fund split and Lightcone Commons
Follow the closing LTFF into Commons and the new Transformative AI Fund.
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Where Oak-funded organisations disagree
Statewatch endorsed a CSA objection and an OSA safeguards letter. The WeProtect Secretariat supported the CSA initiative with safeguards. DFF separately reports funding Liberty’s TCN challenge.
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Who can access platform data
The provider-establishment DSC decides project vetting and request conditions. The researcher supplies eligibility and funding information; providers have a bounded amendment route.
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Who chooses Digital Freedom Fund projects
DFF describes staged 2025 selection rounds, March 2026 board adoption and peer selection of the June round. Staff and the published terms support that process.
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Who financed the policy research
All five disclosed co-funders connect to the same corrected March 2021 report. Publication, authored recommendations and MPA’s later parliamentary citation remain distinct routes.
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Who pays and who supervises AliExpress’s trustee
AliExpress must fund the trustee; the Commission approved Ankura and controls its mandate. QA and monitoring reports should travel back through specified channels.
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Who selects and authorises grants
Named grants establish resources; KR’s statutes establish internal selection and appointment rights. CMA’s two funding charts describe a changed mix without explaining its cause.