🚨1/The bill Bernie Sanders introduced was drafted in London.🇬🇧 Its drafter, ControlAI, admitted it to TIME. Its…

🚨1/The bill Bernie Sanders introduced was drafted in London.🇬🇧 Its drafter, ControlAI, admitted it to TIME. Its funder — sole publicly named — is Jaan Tallinn, who led Anthropic’s Series A and sits on Anthropic’s board as an observer. Neither Sanders nor the UK sponsor disclosed it. 🧵👇

2/ TIME, Sept 8, 2026: “ControlAI, a campaign group that wrote the U.K. bill and consulted on the U.S. one.” — Andrea Miotti, ControlAI founder Wired, Sept 9: “The parliamentary bill was crafted by the nonprofit organization ControlAI, which has the support of Jaan Tallinn.” Their words. controlai.org

3/ Follow the flow: DRAFTER: ControlAI (UK Companies House 15088415, filed as “public relations & communications”) FUNDER: Jaan Tallinn (sole publicly named) BENEFICIARY: Anthropic (Tallinn led its $124M Series A; board observer; closed-weights = exempt from bill)

4/ The bill defines a regulated AI as one that “exhibits OR CAN EASILY BE MODIFIED to exhibit” human-level capability. Closed-weights labs (Anthropic, OpenAI APIs) can’t be modified externally. Open-weights (Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Enoch) can — by definition. That’s the exemption.

5/ Both bills use the SAME three-part mechanism: 1.National ban on “superintelligence” 2.New national authority with discretionary classification 3.Push for a global treaty That structure is Phase 0 → Phase 1 of ControlAI’s own policy document A Narrow Path. narrowpath.co Not coincidence. Template.

6/ Neither American nor British sponsor disclosed the drafter. Sanders’ Sept 3 release: no ControlAI, no Miotti, no outside org named. UK Parliament record for Sobel bill: sponsor only. The public would only know if TIME/Wired asked. Thankfully, TIME and Wired did; the legacy media somehow still contributing to a functioning 5th estate.

7/ ControlAI’s leadership pool came from Conjecture: • Miotti = ex-Head of Strategy & Governance, Conjecture • Connor Leahy = Conjecture co-founder, now heads ControlAI US • Gabriel Alfour = Conjecture co-founder, “helped Andrea found ControlAI” Same three people. New wrapper. Lobbying focus.

8/ Two questions Sanders and Casar owe the public: 1.Did ControlAI provide drafting language? When? Why undisclosed? 2.Were you aware ControlAI publicly claimed to have written a substantially similar UK bill five days later, and that its funder is a board observer at the lab your bill exempts?

9/ This is not the first time a UK 'advocacy shop' has drafted the American federal action against a domain its funder benefits from. In 2021 CCDH produced the “Disinformation Dozen” list. I was on it. Different NGO. Different funder. Same architecture. Two instances now, 5 years apart.

Sayer Ji@sayerjigmi · Sep 11, 2026

🚨1/Yesterday I showed you how Bill Gates teed up the “AI existential threat” frame two weeks before the Coxon op: Today I’m connecting a piece nobody else has caught. The London NGO that put me on the 2021 “Disinformation Dozen” list — and came for RFK Jr last September — quietly changed its legal name 29 days before Coxon posted. Same operators. Same senator. New industry. 🧵👇

10/ Full sourcing, corporate records, funder graph, and the two-question ask to Sanders/Casar: sayerji.substack.com/p/exclusive-th… 🇺🇸Coalition organizing to prevent the licensing regime this bill would build: restorethe1st.com @restorethe1st Read our key piece: "Why AI is a First Amendment fight." restorethe1st.com/why-ai-is-1a.h… Act Four is on the board. This is who’s holding the pen.

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