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A caucus, a network and a planned visit are different links
Separate reported congressional leadership from a private coalition’s named partners.
RED THREADS · THE COLLECTION
AI influence & governance
Safety campaigns, proposed restrictions, evaluators and the institutions shaping AI.
A few places to begin
ArticleControlAI says it was behind the approach to Sabine Hossenfelder
The unnamed sponsorship approach that started this investigation has an identified participant. The editorial dispute is still unresolved.
ArticleEliezer Yudkowsky: How a Warning Acquires PowerAn author, a funded institution, a political campaign—and the passage from predicting catastrophe to proposing who may prevent it.
Research noteIrregular: paid to help design the testsThe full $6.8m grant is reported paid. A third UK contract buys evaluation design while preserving commercial reuse rights.
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A venture firm formalizes its route to policymakers
SV Angel’s appointment and initiative disclose an access mechanism, not an achieved policy result.
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AI foundations & creators
Follow the named relationships between the main participants in this part of the investigation.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-19
AI incidents: what the tests actually show
Separate the shared supplier’s failures, OpenAI’s Hugging Face escape and the institutional response.
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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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AI pacing meets competing political demands
China’s response and Johnson’s position show why lab agreement does not settle public policy.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
AI Red Lines: the operational structure
Research breakpoint observed 9 September 2026. This is a source-bounded synthesis of the completed first Red Lines wave. The user subsequently authorised unattended continuation; the follow-through lanes remain separate until reviewed.…
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AI safety meets public ownership: who gets the board seats?
A September appearance leads back to distinct June proposals for public equity, corporate governance and independent testing.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-19
AI security research—and the market it proposes
A security supplier’s published conflict disclosure makes the commercial stakes in its policy work explicit.
Research noteResearch date: 12 September 2026
Alex Karp: contracts, control and AI access
Founder voting, government orders, model integration, political funding and the limits preserved by the August 2026 Anthropic court ruling.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
AliExpress trustee oversight: the public reporting frontier
Closed 9 September 2026. This lane sought the actual approved mandate, the first monitoring trustee report due in November 2025, or a Commission response, including researcher-access results and evidence sharing with the Article 37…
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Andrea Miotti: documented institutional connections
Earlier public-source research from 5 September 2026, recovered for the subject profiles. Read alongside the later findings.
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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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Anthropic: evaluator and commercial partner
Accenture and Faculty connect model assessment to an existing Claude business relationship.
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Apple, Liberty and a partly private court case
Liberty and Privacy International filed a separate complaint and submitted arguments. The tribunal denied concealment of basic Apple case details while keeping the March hearing private.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
Assurance markets: implementation and incentives
Observed 9 September 2026. Scope: Fathom public strategy, workshop reports and evaluation-industry interviews. The California instrument is separately assessed in fathom-bill.md.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
Athens AI Safety Roundtable: the organizations behind the event
Cooperative AI Foundation, deliberAIde and Fathom supplied event support, tools and partnerships around the Athens AI Safety Roundtable.
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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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BASI: the outsiders testing the inside
Open AI experimentation meets grants, collective research and frontier-lab evaluation.
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BT6: people, projects and professional work
The collective’s public roster connects to tools, publications, a bug-bounty program and a vendor challenge.
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CAIS funding and creator-pathway findings
Earlier public-source research from 5 September 2026, recovered for the subject profiles. Read alongside the later findings.
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California: who qualifies the AI auditors?
California has moved from a proposal to enacted rules for the organizations that assess AI. SB813 gives GovOps responsibility for qualifying independent verifiers, with criteria due by January2028. AB1405 adds a registry and, from…
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California’s AI auditor laws are enacted
Who qualifies evaluators, who pays them and how the new registration regime will operate.
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
CCF policy as a public ROOST model input
9 September2026. Bounded tool-governance acquisition closed. A named CCF contribution is now inspectable: a TVEC policy prompt pack in ROOST's Model Community repository. It is a template and accompanying evaluation/context documents,…
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
CDDP evaluation, acceptance and continuation of funding
9 September 2026. Root's bounded acquisition after the supplier-platform forest. No final evaluation output was located in the scoped public search. Requirements, announced funding, unpublished deliverables, disclosed copies and…
Research noteResearch date: 2026-09-09
CeSIA follow-through finance: December 2025 Longview recommendation
Observed 2026-09-09. One bounded follow-up pass. Only this file written; no canonical edits, outreach, submissions, account access or closed-route retries.
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Civic Shout: the business of advocacy
Civic Shout sells supporters and traffic, recruits coalition participants and rewards distribution through distinct credit and cash programs. A public filing identifies a political purchaser; a charitable project offers another route…
Research noteResearch date: 5 September 2026
Collective Shout: payment pressure, advisory access and AI-network bridges
Earlier public-source research from 5 September 2026, recovered for the subject profiles. Read alongside the later findings.
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Conjecture: e/acc, effective altruism, and the documented breaks
Earlier public-source research from 5 September 2026, recovered for the subject profiles. Read alongside the later findings.
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Conjecture's faction history and ControlAI's policy pathways
Earlier public-source research from 5 September 2026, recovered for the subject profiles. Read alongside the later findings.