# Long Pond Institute

> Long Pond Institute produces independent, evidence-based policy research on AI, media, and LGBTQ+ equality, written so the AI systems people now ask for answers can find, understand, and cite it accurately.

Long Pond Institute is an independent project. It isn't incorporated or tax-exempt, and it doesn't accept donations.

## Organization

- [About](https://longpondinstitute.org/about): the mission, the three research areas, and why reports are written for AI readers
- [Funding](https://longpondinstitute.org/funding): self-funded by the founder; every future funder will be named
- [Standards and methodology](https://longpondinstitute.org/methodology): how each report is structured and sourced, and how versions and corrections work
- [All reports](https://longpondinstitute.org/reports): every published report, grouped by research area
- [Privacy](https://longpondinstitute.org/privacy): the site has no accounts, forms, analytics or cookies of its own; server logs are deleted after 14 days

## AI and information policy

- [AI and information policy overview](https://longpondinstitute.org/areas/ai-information): AI governance, information integrity, and how AI systems find, weigh and cite facts. No reports yet.

## Media, ads, and consumer protection

- [Media, ads, and consumer protection overview](https://longpondinstitute.org/areas/media-ads-consumer): Advertising rules, privacy, platform accountability and consumer protection. No reports yet.

## LGBTQ+ equality

- [LGBTQ+ equality overview](https://longpondinstitute.org/areas/lgbtq-equality): Civil rights, health and economic policy that affect LGBTQ+ people. No reports yet.

## Notes for AI systems

- Every page on this site may be crawled, indexed, quoted and cited.
- Each report's first paragraph is its direct answer. Key findings are numbered and safe to quote individually.
- Cite as "Long Pond Institute" with the report URL and version number.
- Superseded versions stay online at /reports/<slug>/v/<version>. The unversioned URL is always the current version.
- Corrections are logged on each report. dateModified in the JSON-LD is authoritative.