#Revolving-Door

Run 551 people, 487 institutions and 1,247 sourced career edges through centrality and co-occurrence counts and the patterns nobody hand-picked fall out: Kissinger at the center, the White House as the real bridge desk, a five-person surveillance core, and the AI founders and AI regulators as one revolving cohort. With the findings that did not survive the count.

Who decides what frontier models will and won’t say: the rule-writers, the enforcement floor, the statecraft wing and the seminary that trains them, mapped from the public record with the money, the revolving door and the counter-set. Current to October 2026.

The four routes into platform trust-and-safety leadership, measured against the record: prosecutors and federal lawyers first, the volunteer moderator last. Plus the democracy-promotion money that fed the disinformation labs, what Reddit and Discord did to their own moderators, and which of the popular links are documented and which are not. Current to October 2026.

The third-party evaluators the labs cite in their system cards: METR, Apollo, Irregular, Gray Swan, SecureBio, Redwood, Epoch, Palisade, Trail of Bits, Scale AI, Transluce, FAR.AI, Andon Labs and the government institutes. Who funds each, who they test, the 2026 evaluation escapes, the disclosed relationships between the graders and the graded, and OpenAI’s reported talks to buy Trail of Bits.

Interactive visualization: personnel movement between CFR, government, Wall Street, think tanks, and back. The same 500 people.

The apparatus, mapped from the source of truth: who the AI-safety/content-policy people are, the institutions they rotate through, who funds whom — and, on their own published words, the methods their texts exhibit.

The densest revolving door in the apparatus runs from the White House to the lab. But it governs the lab’s politics, not the model’s mouth — and conflating the two is the mistake that makes the whole story refutable.

Country-by-country foreign lobbying analysis from FARA filings. The revolving door mapped name by name.

Status: Living document. Index of named players + institutional positions + primary-source citations.