{"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":"sanders-conjecture-historical-vc-2022","category":"organizations","title":"Conjecture named venture backers in its 2022 launch announcement","date":"2022-04-08","period":"First-party announcement April 8, 2022; not a current shareholder register.","status":"Public-source relationship evidence; no misconduct conclusion","summary":"Conjecture’s launch post names VC backing from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Patrick and John Collison, Arthur Breitman, Andrej Karpathy and Sam Bankman-Fried. It describes a for-profit company and says founders retained control at that time. The announcement does not identify ControlAI as a recipient.","facts":[{"label":"Company described","value":"Conjecture; for-profit AI alignment startup"},{"label":"Named historical backers","value":"Nat Friedman; Daniel Gross; Patrick Collison; John Collison; Arthur Breitman; Andrej Karpathy; Sam Bankman-Fried","note":"Company’s own 2022 statement; legal investment vehicles and amounts are unspecified."},{"label":"Founder-control statement","value":"Founders retained complete control","note":"A 2022 claim, not a current ownership percentage."},{"label":"Verified onward funding","value":"Not established","note":"No acquired record traces these investments to ControlAI or Sanders."}],"limitations":["This is historical investment backing, not a private donor list or proof of current holdings.","Do not replace named individuals with their employers or related companies as legal investors without an original transaction record.","The presence of a controversial investor’s name is not evidence of wrongdoing by another investor, Conjecture, ControlAI or Sanders.","No investment amount or subsequent transfer should be invented or inferred from overlapping people."],"sourceIds":["src-controlai-commercial-conjecture-launch"],"tags":["ai-advocacy","ControlAI","Conjecture","commercial relationships"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-controlai-commercial-conjecture-launch","title":"Conjecture launch announcement, April 8, 2022","publisher":"Conjecture","url":"https://www.conjecture.dev/research/we-are-conjecture-a-new-alignment-research-startup","documentDate":"2022-04-08","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"first-party-historical-financing-statement","locator":"Opening founding/backing paragraph and for-profit/founder-control paragraphs.","sha256":"2672b3a5d80eff8ea6a44bf01645eb389eda1f6cbaf3966eb413646f975345f5","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Names historical backing, but supplies no amounts, legal investor vehicles, investment closing dates, current holdings, or ControlAI payee. Do not assign investments onward to ControlAI or Sanders."}]}