The Midas Project
- Type
- Watchdog or incident database
- Place
- United States — United States (EIN 99-2326977)
- Last checked
- 2026-09-22
- Next check due
- 2027-03-21
Ways to reach them
- Submit a tip — the best-designed whistleblower-adjacent intake in this list
- Signal (encrypted) — usernamemidasproject.10
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- General enquiries (explicitly NOT recommended for confidential material)
- Contact form
- Homepage
- Action page
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What it does
Watchdog non-profit holding AI companies to their own stated commitments. Projects: Watchtower (tracks changes to and violations of corporate AI safety policies), the Seoul Tracker (whether 16 organisations met the Seoul frontier-safety commitments), The OpenAI Files (documented governance, leadership and culture concerns at OpenAI), and Model Republic (industry influence on policymakers).
What they ask for — in their own terms
AI companies should keep the safety and transparency commitments they have publicly made, and be held accountable when they quietly walk them back.
What they do
Corporate watchdog work: the Watchtower tracker of silent changes to AI company policies, investigations, scorecards, and the OpenAI Files. Runs modelrepublic.org and openaifiles.org.
Honest assessment
Tiny, and it absolutely reads its inbox — the single best target in this list for someone with concrete non-public evidence about an AI company's conduct. Note their own advice: if you are an employee considering disclosure, contact the AI Whistleblower Initiative first for independent legal guidance before approaching any journalist or watchdog.
What a newcomer can do
Send a tip if you have inside knowledge of an AI company; otherwise sign up as a volunteer, join the Discord and help with research or amplifying campaigns.
Worth knowing
Adversarial toward specific named companies. If you work at an AI lab, sending a tip may breach your employment agreement — take legal advice first; the organisation is small and cannot indemnify you.
Concerns it covers
Corporate accountability and commitment-drift — the concern that voluntary safety commitments quietly erode. Agnostic between threat models; it tracks whatever companies promised, which spans misuse, catastrophic risk and governance.
Government channel
Indirect but potent — its findings get picked up by press and cited in policy debate; The OpenAI Files fed directly into scrutiny of OpenAI's restructuring.
Tips
yes — dedicated tip page at themidasproject.com/tips, aimed at industry insiders
Where they work
United States (company-focused, global reach).
Size
Tiny: founded early 2024 by Tyler Johnston, 'a small core team' plus volunteers. 501(c)(3), EIN 99-2326977.
Spending
Not disclosed.