{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"r9-leahy-conjecture-commercial-regulatory-vision","category":"policy","title":"Leahy linked a 2024 AI product goal to a regulatory standard","date":"2026-03-26","period":"Retrospective published March 26, 2026; describes goals in 2021-2024 and commercial setbacks in 2025.","status":"First-person historical account; proposed regulatory approach","summary":"Connor Leahy described a 2024 goal for Conjecture’s Cognitive Emulation (CoEm): develop a commercial AI product and support rules allowing AI demonstrated not to be superintelligent while banning systems unable to show that property. His March 2026 retrospective presents a conditional ambition, not evidence that a product met the standard.","facts":[{"label":"Commercial and regulatory goal","value":"2024","note":"Part 3 links the hoped-for bounded AI technology to both a product and regulation. It does not establish technical success or a legal exemption."},{"label":"Earlier safety goals","value":"2021-2022","note":"Parts 0-1 place safe, controllable AI goals before the later business setbacks; the account does not support a claim that failure created those beliefs."},{"label":"Subsequent business account","value":"2025","note":"Parts 4-5 describe a product pivot, initial customers, stronger competitors and an unsuccessful final effort. These are first-person claims."},{"label":"ControlAI role announcement","value":"March 26, 2026","note":"The Future section announces that he will join as US director; it does not establish the exact start date. ControlAI’s current leadership page separately identifies him as US Executive Director."}],"limitations":["This establishes a publicly stated historical product-and-regulation rationale. It does not prove current product qualification, a named-company exemption, realized commercial benefit or enacted policy.","No acquired source establishes that Sanders adopted this standard or that Leahy authored the Sanders-Casar statutory text. ControlAI’s separate September 2026 statement describes consultation and distinguishes its preferred approach.","The essay supplies no paid drafting agreement, current compensation, ownership amount or payment to Sanders. Its project-ending narrative does not establish corporate dissolution or insolvency."],"sourceIds":["src-r9-leahy-conjecture-retrospective","src-ai-advocacy-control-about","src-ai-advocacy-control-consultation"],"tags":["ControlAI","Conjecture","Connor Leahy","CoEm","AI policy","commercial interests","historical account","ai-advocacy","commercial relationships"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-r9-leahy-conjecture-retrospective","title":"Connor Leahy: Conjecture retrospective","publisher":"Connor Leahy / Expedition to the Far Lands","url":"https://www.ettf.land/p/conjecture-a-retrospective","documentDate":"2026-03-26","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"first-person retrospective","locator":"Part 3 (2024 CoEm goal); Parts 0–1 (earlier safety aims), Parts 4–5 (business history), The Future (role announcement).","sha256":"9d30fd144542ffed191498d4876f0e9c00d148a41fcb18cad3ababf30220295b","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"First-person account; byline and publication metadata checked. 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