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People (3)

  • Brian Chau Canadian olympiad mathematician who founded the anti-regulation AI think tank Alliance for the Future, left it in 2025, then founded Effort, a publication investigating Coefficient Giving's funding of journalists and policy staff.
  • Caleb Watney Co-founder and co-chief executive of the Institute for Progress who in July 2026 became Coefficient Giving's first managing director of public policy, taking over its U.S. AI policy grantmaking.
  • Jack Clark Jack Clark is the cofounder and head of policy at Anthropic, a former technology journalist who ran policy and communications at OpenAI, co-chairs Stanford's AI Index, and writes the Import AI newsletter.

Organizations (8)

  • Americans for Responsible Innovation Washington 501(c)(4) AI-policy lobby founded in late 2023 by former congressman Brad Carson and Eric Gastfriend, funded by Coefficient Giving and Omidyar Network, whose PAC is financed by AI-safety researchers.
  • Center for a New American Security Washington national-security think tank founded in 2007 by Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy, funded by defense contractors, the Pentagon and Coefficient Giving, whose chief executive Richard Fontaine sits on Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust.
  • Federation of American Scientists Science-policy nonprofit founded in 1945 by atomic researchers as the Federation of Atomic Scientists, led by the former OSTP official Daniel Correa, whose AI program is funded by the Future of Life Institute.
  • Foundation for American Innovation Washington technology think tank founded in Silicon Valley in 2014 as Lincoln Labs, renamed in 2023, funded by conservative foundations, Coefficient Giving and AI companies, whose former board member Michael Kratsios became OSTP director.
  • Leading the Future Super PAC registered in Henderson, Nevada, in 2025, funded with 75.1 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz, Greg and Anna Brockman and Perplexity, which passes its money to affiliated committees spending in 2026 congressional races.
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy White House science and technology office whose directors under Biden and Trump shaped federal AI policy, from Eric Lander's 2022 resignation to Michael Kratsios's 2025 AI Action Plan.
  • Omidyar Network Philanthropic investment firm of The Omidyar Group, run through an LLC and a private foundation, which bought Anthropic shares from the FTX estate in 2024 and funds AI-policy groups including Americans for Responsible Innovation.
  • Public First Action 501(c)(4) given 40 million dollars by Anthropic in 2026, linked to the Public First super PAC funded by Anthropic staff, which passes money to committees backing Alex Bores and other candidates.