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#Lobbying

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People (2)

  • 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.
  • Celestino White Former Virgin Islands police chief and senator who signed a paid contractor agreement with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 and has sat on the Port Authority board since 2020, reconfirmed in 2026.

Organizations (12)

  • 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 AI Policy Washington AI-safety advocacy nonprofit that registered its first lobbyist in December 2023, promoted a draft Responsible AI Act, and drew about a third of its donations from Jaan Tallinn's Lightspeed Grants.
  • Center for AI Safety San Francisco AI-safety nonprofit directed by Dan Hendrycks, funded by Open Philanthropy, which organized the 2023 extinction-risk statement; its 501(c)(4) arm co-sponsored SB 1047 and lobbied for the AI Safety Institute.
  • Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms Washington lobby against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, chaired by the publisher William Loeb, that drew three quarters of its 343,191 dollars through the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, most of it from Wickliffe Draper.
  • Discord Voice and text chat service launched in 2015 whose servers figure in the Sines v. Kessler subpoena, the Teixeira leak case, the CVLT and 764 prosecutions, a Senate subpoena, and three state suits.
  • Employee-Owned Contractors Roundtable Washington coalition of federal contractors organized as S corporations wholly owned through employee stock ownership plans, represented by Venn Strategies since 2017 and named as the source of the section 874 sole-source pilot.
  • 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.
  • Goldman Sachs New York investment bank founded in 1869 whose former executives became Treasury officials, which paid 550 million dollars in 2010 over a mortgage CDO and entered a 2020 deferred prosecution agreement over 1MDB bribery.
  • Jane Street Capital New York proprietary trading firm that trained Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, agreed in 2024 to buy FTX's Anthropic shares, and faces India's 2025 manipulation order and the Terraform estate's insider trading suit.
  • Open Philanthropy Action Fund The 501(c)(4) of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, renamed Coefficient Giving Action Fund, run by the Good Ventures and Open Philanthropy officers, which received about 270 million dollars from 2016 to 2023.
  • Scale AI San Francisco AI data company founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang, holder of 105.6 million dollars in Army obligations, whose Labor Department inquiry was dropped in 2025 and in which Meta bought a non-voting stake.
  • Y Combinator Startup investor founded in March 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell, whose research affiliate shared officers and a lender with OpenAI and whose federal PAC registered in 2025.

Concepts (2)

  • DoD ESOP Pilot Program Pilot authority in the Fiscal Year 2022 defense authorization act, introduced as S.2402 by Warren and Tillis, for sole-source follow-on contracts to S corporations owned 100 percent through employee stock ownership plans.
  • Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act Senate amendment of July 2023 by Schumer and Rounds, modeled on the JFK records law, passed with the 2024 defense bill and cut in conference to a National Archives records collection with no review board.