Inside The Black Box (Substack), 2026-06-03; retrieved 2026-09-14 tier 4 press (aggregator)confirmed
Who Funds the AI Safety Watchdogs
https://itbb.substack.com/p/who-funds-the-watchdogs
Funding pipeline analysis; METR diversification; Redwood revenue volatility; ~$25M Open Phil to Redwood historically. Cited from a search snippet; not re-fetched in full. [verify 2026-09-15] fetched 2026-09-15; page loads, citation matches
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- METR, F (for): Funder base widened beyond the effective-altruism network, including Pew Charitable Trusts.“including the Pew Charitable Trusts and several foundations outside the usual network”
- METR, A (against): Access remains voluntary; no law requires any lab to grant it.“that access is voluntary. Companies grant it because they choose to, not because any law or agreement requires it”
- Redwood Research, F (for): No lab revenue; historically about $25M from Open Philanthropy.“Open Philanthropy's grants database shows approximately $25 million in historical funding to Redwood Research”
- Redwood Research, F (against): Funding concentration: revenue nearly disappeared in one year when a few large grants ended.“a few large grants can make one year's revenue almost disappear in the next”
- Redwood Research, P (against): Co-authored alignment research with Anthropic; close talent flow with lab safety teams.
- Redwood Research, G (for): Nonprofit.
- Redwood Research, M (for): Publishes control methods and code.
- Redwood Research, X (for): No commercial products.
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