Disclosures
Who funds Distilled AI, what their money supports, and what it doesn't buy.
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Funded by MIRI, which has no editorial say.
Who Funds Us
MIRI is our only funder right now. We welcome funding from across the AI debate on the terms in our editorial independence policy.
| Funder | What the grant supports | Type | Period |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) | The Distilled AI video program and the free Clip Library of AI interviews | Grant | 29 Oct 2026 – 29 Jan 2027 |
MIRI is a nonprofit research institute in Berkeley, California, that works on risks from advanced AI. Its leaders, including president Nate Soares, argue that building smarter-than-human AI with today’s methods would lead to human extinction, and they call for an international agreement to stop it. We tell you this so you can weigh our coverage with it in mind.
What Funding Doesn’t Buy
- Funders don’t choose our topics, guests, framing, or conclusions.
- Funders don’t see, comment on, or approve scripts, edits, or captions before we publish.
- Funders can’t cut or end funding because of the viewpoint of anything we publish.
- We hold funders’ arguments, research, and staff to the same standards as anyone else’s.
The editorial independence policy has the full rules.
Where Else We Disclose
- Our bios on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and X say that MIRI funds us and has no editorial say.
- Any video that covers MIRI, its staff, or its work says on screen or in the caption that MIRI funds us.
- Any page on this site that covers MIRI, its staff, or its work carries the line “Funded by MIRI, which has no editorial say.”
- Any clip featuring MIRI staff notes MIRI’s support in the caption and carries the platform’s paid-partnership label where its rules require one.
- The Clip Library carries a note on MIRI’s support.
- Videos a host also posts on their own channel carry the same disclosures.