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I can try to answer 3 for Marcus. Imagine that AI policy is a soccer game for professional soccer players. You've put in a lot of practice, know the rules, and know how to work well with your teammates. You're scoring some goals.
Then someone from an interim/pick-up game league who is just learning to play soccer comes along and tried to be on the team, or -- in this case is not even aware of the team? If we let them on the team, not only do we look bad to the other team, but since policy is a team sport, they drive our overall impact down because it's kind of dead weight that we now have to try to guard against for things they do that they think are helpful but are not, depleting energy and resources better spent on getting goals.
Ah, formerly CE. No, I think that formerly CE is not well suited for US Policy-focused spinouts. There aren't any people on staff that can advise on that well (I've been involved in a couple of policy consultation projects for that and it seemed that the advisors just had no grasp regarding what was going on in US policy/advocacy). I think their classic charities are good though!
They don't have any experience and no people with experience driving the ship, where experience and relationships in DC are extremely important. They are meeting with offices, yes, but it's not clear that they are meeting with the right offices or the right staffers. It's likely that they are actually not cost-effective because the money could probably be better spent on two highly competent and experienced/plugged in people rather than a bunch of junior people in terms of ROI.
That's just completely false. Sorry I can't say more.