OrganizationsPublic-source relationship evidence; no misconduct conclusion
ControlAI publicly identifies professional ties to Conjecture
Period or event: Historic career disclosures in 2025; testimony April 15, 2026; roles page observed September 12, 2026. · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record sanders-controlai-conjecture-professional-roles
ControlAI identifies Connor Leahy as US Executive Director and Gabriel Alfour as an adviser who co-founded Conjecture and helped establish ControlAI. Miotti’s 2025 written evidence discloses a prior strategy/governance role at Conjecture. Leahy’s 2026 testimony calls his Conjecture CEO role former.
What the source records
ControlAI current leadership listing
Connor Leahy — US Executive DirectorUndated page observed September 12, 2026; exact start date not given.
Adviser/cofounder link
Gabriel Alfour — ControlAI adviser; Conjecture cofounderControlAI’s own biography says he helped Andrea Miotti found ControlAI.
Miotti disclosed former role
Head of Strategy and Governance at ConjectureSeptember 2025 written evidence to UK Parliament; does not assert current employment.
Leahy role-transition evidence
Previously CEO of ConjectureApril 15, 2026 Canadian Senate testimony; directorship and PSC are separate legal roles.
Historical commercial objective
Leahy’s retrospective describes a 2024 CoEm product goalAttributed historical account in his March 2026 essay, not verified efficacy or proof of current operations.
Shared professional history or an advisory role does not establish ownership, payments, direction of advocacy, a financial conflict adjudication or misconduct.
The prior Sanders connection is ControlAI’s own report of consultation on the announced ASI framework. This professional overlap does not establish direct Conjecture consultation, payment or influence over a specific bill provision.
The product description and ControlAI’s narrower ASI position are compatible with support for some AI development; calling either organization categorically anti-AI would overstate the sources.
Organization introduction; Our Leadership: Connor Leahy; Our Advisors: Gabriel Alfour; Team: Eva Behrens.
Website describes a UK nonprofit company and a US 501(c)(4); it does not give a US EIN here. Raw response hashed in memory; selected privacy-minimized excerpt retained. Same original and hash independently reviewed for public professional roles. Undated current page; exact role start dates are not supplied.
Senate of Canada · official-committee-testimony · Document date 2026-04-15 · Checked 2026-09-12
Printed page 28:4 / PDF page 4: US Director ControlAI; previously CEO Conjecture.
Explicit counterevidence against calling him the current Conjecture CEO solely from older biographies. This does not determine whether a corporate directorship/control role persisted.
Homepage Cognitive Emulation and controllable advanced AI development description.
Marketing/self-description, not independently validated product performance. Observed September 12, 2026; distinguishes company product objective from a ban on all AI.
Sanders and Casar Announce the First US Bill to Ban Superintelligent AI; following three paragraphs
First-party claim of consultation, also attributing prior reporting to the Washington Post. The organization explicitly distinguishes its narrower preferred policy. Raw response hashed in memory; selected privacy-minimized excerpt retained.