# ControlAI **Entity class:** Advocacy organization **Domain:** AI Governance / Legislative Advocacy **Maturity:** Developing ## Identity and activity ControlAI is the London-based advocacy organization whose public [[wiki/ControlAI Direct Institutional Plan|Direct Institutional Plan]] describes designing policies against artificial superintelligence and persuading lawmakers, officials, media, civil society, and the public to adopt them. In its own account, it authored the [[wiki/Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill|UK draft]] and consulted on the [[wiki/Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act|U.S. proposal]]. Those are two distinct legislative processes, and consultation does not establish sole authorship of the American package. The organization reports briefings, creator outreach, campaign sponsorship, and constituent-contact metrics; see the dated attributions in [[wiki/The Real No Kings Moment — Source Map|the source map]] and the primary links in the [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|article]]. The article names Jaan Tallinn as a funder and Connor Leahy as director of its American operation. Tallinn's role in Anthropic's 2021 financing raises a disclosed-interest question about a proposed definition; it is not evidence by itself of collusion or a hidden exemption. ## Evidence boundary ControlAI is neither the [[wiki/UK AI Security Institute|UK government evaluator]] nor the Palace or the Ditchley Foundation. The British government is described in the source article as opposing Sobel's private member's bill. Their simultaneous activity is an institutional ecology in the author's analysis, not a demonstrated chain of command. ## Relationships - **Published strategy:** [[wiki/ControlAI Direct Institutional Plan|Direct Institutional Plan]] describes policy design and persuasion; *A Narrow Path* describes national restrictions followed by international oversight. - **Legislative association:** ControlAI says it drafted the [[wiki/Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill|UK bill]] and consulted on the [[wiki/Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act|U.S. proposal]]. - **Analytical mechanism:** [[wiki/Synthetic Consensus Formation|Synthetic Consensus Formation]] describes the author's reading of its public campaign design. - **Source and route:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment]] in [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. ## Primary sources - [Direct Institutional Plan](https://controlai.org/dip) - [UK bill page](https://controlai.org/uk-kill-switch-amendment) - [About ControlAI](https://controlai.org/about)