One Guardian AI safety story: reporter, outlet, subject and experts all Open Phil-funded
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-15
Effort News founder Brian Chau reveals the funding network behind a single Guardian AI safety story: Dustin Moskovitz's Open Philanthropy/Coefficient Giving and Jaan Tallinn's Survival and Flourishing Fund paid for the outlet, the journalist's salary, the AI Futures Project being covered, and all three quoted experts — raising concerns that one funding network shapes the AI safety media narrative.
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