Evaluator Bench
evaluator; distance from a lab: 2

AVERI

Scorecard

Standards body for frontier AI auditing; ran the first double-blind enclave evaluation of a proprietary model.

Nonprofit, Washington, US. Confidence med. Domains: assurance. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 79; Regulator or auditor 78; Public trust 78; Equal weights 81. Weakest dimension: funding 3/4.

What would move the score. Funder disclosure and a first audit under statutory terms.

Funding 3/4
Mostly philanthropic or public money; some lab-linked pooled funds.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3: philanthropic and diversified with named funders and a no-majority rule; lab-employee donations and two lab-adjacent funders keep it off anchor 4.
Governance 3/4
Nonprofit or public body with a COI policy.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3: 501(c)(3) nonprofit (averi.02). No tier-1 source for an independent board or external review, so 4 is unearned under the tier rule (C10).
Personnel 3/4
Recusal policy and disclosure of lab ties.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3: recusal policy with a stated cooling-off for the director and disclosed ties; short of anchor 4 because the cooling-off is person-specific rather than a standing rule.
Access depth (lab-granted) 3/4
Helpful-only or weights-level access, chain of thought, logs, on-site.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on access given the cited signals.
Scope control 3/4
Evaluator sets scope and can add questions.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on scope given the cited signals.
Publication rights 3/4
Publishes; redaction limited to security; redactions disclosed.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on publication given the cited signals.
Method transparency 4/4
Open code, tasks, reproducible runs, factsheets.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 4 on methods given the cited signals.
Role incompatibility 4/4
No commercial products.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 4 on products given the cited signals.

Traced money and ties

hop 1: 1 row; hop 2: 2 rows; unattributed: 1 row. Confirmed rows: 4 of 4. Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 3 of 4 sources: untraced Halcyon Futures. Ties: none within two steps recorded. Bounded negatives on file: 2.

Ledger

Money in

Bounded negatives

  • N17 no single donor is a majority of funding [organization's own funding disclosure, snapshot 2026-09-14] confirmedhttps://www.averi.org/about
  • N20 no discrete Coefficient Giving grant page for AVERI found, although AVERI names Coefficient as a funder [coefficientgiving.org/grants, name search, snapshot 2026-09-15] unauditedhttps://coefficientgiving.org/

Roles hosted

One hop away

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, Miles Brundage, Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), Halcyon Futures, Frontier-lab employees and alumni (unnamed), Sympatico Ventures

Funding graph, focused

Neighbours at full strength, everything else faded. Hover any name to move the focus; click a name to open its page.

The funding graph around AVERI Teal lines are money (transfers); amber lines are roles. Solid: confirmed; dashed: imported. Hover a name to isolate it and its neighbours; hover a line for the row. Every element is a row in data/ledger/. Labs Direct lab ties Two steps Three or more Public or unattributed Evaluators Amazon Anthropic G42 Google / Google DeepMind Meta Microsoft OpenAI Thinking Machines Lab xAI AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Alexandr Wang Andreessen Horowitz Anthropic employees (personal Ben Mann D.E. Shaw Ventures David Farhi Dustin Moskovitz Frontier-lab employees and alu Holden Karnofsky Jaan Tallinn Jeffrey Ladish Macroscopic Ventures (formerly Miles Brundage Neil Chowdhury Nvidia OpenAI employees (personal hol OpenAI Foundation Peter Mattson Sequoia Capital Zico Kolter Adam Gleave Artificial Intelligence Underw Clement Delangue Coefficient Giving (formerly O Good Ventures Foundation Jason Droege Longview Philanthropy Marco Mascorro Paul Christiano Rajiv Dattani Survival and Flourishing Fund Conrad Stosz Dan Hendrycks Mike McCormick Alec Radford Alignment Research Center Constellation Research Center ELMA Philanthropies Emerson Collective EU budget (Digital Europe Prog Fifty Years (50Y) Founders Pledge Founders Pledge (frontier AI f Gates Foundation Halcyon Futures Hillspire (Schmidt family offi Hudson River Trading Jacob Hilton MacKenzie Scott Magarac Venture Partners Obvious Ventures Redpoint Ventures Renaissance Philanthropy Salesforce Ventures Samsung Next Schmidt Sciences Silicon Valley Community Found Skoll Foundation Snowflake Ventures Swish Ventures Sympatico Ventures The Audacious Project (TED) UK government (DSIT) US government (NIST appropriat Valhalla Foundation Vanguard Charitable Wing Venture Capital Y Combinator Andon Labs Apollo Research AVERI Center for AI Safety Epoch AI EquiStamp EU AI Office FAR.AI Gray Swan Hugging Face Open Alignment In Irregular (formerly Pattern La METR Microsoft AI Red Team MLCommons Nemesys Insights Palisade Research RAND Corporation Redwood Research SaferAI Scale AI (SEAL) SecureBio Transluce UK AI Security Institute US CAISI (NIST)