F.01
Movement
Manifesto & coalition-building
The Planetary Republic is the founding document. The Alliance holds the signature roll, expands the coalition across professions and borders, and coordinates allied voices when the next defense contract or surveillance proposal hits the news cycle.
- Signature page (open to allies and endorsers)
- Press response coordination
- Op-ed and quote-card placement support for members
- Editorial council and amendment process for the manifesto
F.02
Watchdog
Counter-party tracker
Public, regularly updated record of the firms, executives, contracts, and political networks that are directing AI capital toward weapons, surveillance, and democratic capture. Sourced from FedBizOpps, USAspending.gov, and investigative press.
- Counter-party profiles (Palantir, Anduril, Scale AI, a16z, Thiel network)
- Contract monitoring with published primary sources
- Quarterly counter-party report
- Tip line for whistleblowers in the affected industries
F.03
Policy
Regulatory advocacy
Comments to FTC, FCC, NIST, the EU AI Office, and state AI rulemaking bodies. Friend-of-the-court briefs in landmark AI litigation. Coordinated policy responses when proposed regulations would tilt the field toward extraction or surveillance.
- Public-comment library and template responses
- Amicus brief co-signing program
- Legislator briefings on public-interest AI policy
- Coalition responses to landmark AI regulatory moments
F.04
Research & Capital
Public-interest AI research network
Aligned research from member institutions on AI's environmental cost, labor impacts, civic harms, and constructive applications. Funder convening — Ford, MacArthur, Omidyar, Knight, Wellcome, Schmidt — to direct catalytic capital toward the AI for Planet catalog.
- Annual State of Public-Interest AI report
- Funder roundtables and aligned grant cycles
- Research fellowships for builders in the catalog
- Member-institution publication stream