Evaluator Bench
evaluator; distance from a lab: 1

FAR.AI

Scorecard

Red-teaming and adversarial-robustness nonprofit; leads the EU AI Office CBRN risk-modelling contract.

Nonprofit, Berkeley, US. Confidence high. Domains: jailbreak, bio, cyber, misuse. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 75; Regulator or auditor 75; Public trust 75; Equal weights 75. Weakest dimension: funding 3/4.

What would move the score. Disclose the AI Safety Fund share of budget and whether lab-funded pools are excluded from evaluation work.

Funding 3/4
Mostly philanthropic or public money; some lab-linked pooled funds.
evidence: tier 1 (filing/index)
Anchor 3 on funding given the cited signals.
Governance 3/4
Nonprofit or public body with a COI policy.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on governance given the cited signals.
Personnel 3/4
Recusal policy and disclosure of lab ties.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on personnel given the cited signals.
Access depth (lab-granted) 3/4
Helpful-only or weights-level access, chain of thought, logs, on-site.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on access given the cited signals.
Scope control 3/4
Evaluator sets scope and can add questions.
evidence: tier 1 (filing/index)
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 3/4
Tasks or code partly open.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on methods given the cited signals.
Role incompatibility 3/4
Tools are open or free to the ecosystem.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on products given the cited signals.

Traced money and ties

hop 1: 1 row; hop 2: 2 rows (recommendation $0.9M); public: 1 row; unattributed: 2 rows (grant $0.5M). Confirmed rows: 4 of 6 (2 quarantined: T03, T43). Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 5 of 6 sources: untraced Founders Pledge (frontier AI fund). Ties: none within two steps recorded. Bounded negatives on file: 0.

Ledger

Money in

Roles held

Roles hosted

One hop away

AI Safety Fund (Frontier Model Forum), Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy), EU budget (Digital Europe Programme), Founders Pledge (frontier AI fund), Adam Gleave, OpenAI, Schmidt Sciences, Survival and Flourishing Fund

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 FAR.AI 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)