Sounds like a lot more risk of bias (and appearance thereof) than it’s worth. At the least, I figure you’d need to have a disclosure on every paper authored by an employee of the company, as well as conflict-of-interest rules making sure the action editor and reviewers were un-biased. Would be a pain, and still suspect. (Here’s GPT’s summary of how existing journals handle this, most commonly in medical research: https://chatgpt.com/share/69a992c3-75d8-8002-a592-a8053ee1cdbe )
An intermediate and more plausible case would be personal donations from a former or current employee of a frontier company; we expect many to be philanthropically motivated in the coming years. Imo, this is something we’d consider, but I haven’t thought about it much yet. We’re set for funding for the first year.
If we are successful in standing up a good and well-respected journal, I expect there will be many funders interested in supporting us. (And if we’re not successful, the issue is moot.) So I’m not too worried about getting backed into a corner where our only option to keep running is money from a potentially biasing source. We’d ideally like a broad diverse base of funders, like the arXiv.
Sounds like a lot more risk of bias (and appearance thereof) than it’s worth. At the least, I figure you’d need to have a disclosure on every paper authored by an employee of the company, as well as conflict-of-interest rules making sure the action editor and reviewers were un-biased. Would be a pain, and still suspect. (Here’s GPT’s summary of how existing journals handle this, most commonly in medical research: https://chatgpt.com/share/69a992c3-75d8-8002-a592-a8053ee1cdbe )
An intermediate and more plausible case would be personal donations from a former or current employee of a frontier company; we expect many to be philanthropically motivated in the coming years. Imo, this is something we’d consider, but I haven’t thought about it much yet. We’re set for funding for the first year.
If we are successful in standing up a good and well-respected journal, I expect there will be many funders interested in supporting us. (And if we’re not successful, the issue is moot.) So I’m not too worried about getting backed into a corner where our only option to keep running is money from a potentially biasing source. We’d ideally like a broad diverse base of funders, like the arXiv.