Support the Public-Interest Work
Help keep AI accountability public, understandable, and open.
Patron support helps FairByDesign sustain The Ethics Engine podcast, open-access analysis, and selected educational resources on AI governance, privacy, security, and oversight.
This support is different from a subscription. Subscriptions pay for research access. Patronage helps keep the public-facing mission alive.
Open-Access Analysis
Public-facing explainers, essays, and briefings that make AI governance and accountability easier to understand without paywalling every useful insight.
The Ethics Engine
Podcast and public conversations connecting policy, risk, engineering, and lived reality in a form people can actually follow.
Selected Open Resources
Educational visuals, public-interest guides, and occasional open materials that help more people make sense of the systems shaping their lives.
Why Patron Support Matters
AI is already shaping rights, safety, work, information, and opportunity. Public understanding is still lagging behind the systems already influencing daily life. Patron support helps keep this work independent, accessible, and usable beyond closed professional circles.
What Patronage Makes Possible
- More open educational and public-interest content
- Better accessibility, polish, and production quality
- More room for independent analysis outside commercial pressure
- Longer-term public work that does not disappear behind urgency cycles
Subscription
The Mercury Brief and Mercury Research Subscription are for readers who want ongoing learning, research, and deeper analysis.
Patronage
Patronage is for people who want to help sustain the public-interest mission: the podcast, open work, and selected educational resources that stay accessible.
Patron Tiers
Ally
- Help keep the public-facing work open and independent
- Early access to selected essays or episodes
- Occasional mission notes from the team
- Optional supporter recognition
Advocate
- Everything in Ally
- Behind-the-scenes project updates
- Invites to occasional supporter feedback sessions
- Closer connection to the direction of the public work
Best for people who want to actively sustain and encourage the mission.
Co-Creator
- Everything in Advocate
- Priority for occasional roundtable or supporter sessions
- Recognition as a key supporter, with permission
- Stronger role in sustaining future public-interest projects
Most patrons choose Advocate when they want to support the work in a more active, ongoing way.
Keep Accountability Human
Your support helps keep public-interest reporting, education, and dialogue on AI governance, privacy, security, and accountability alive and accessible.