evaluator; distance from a lab: 3
RAND Corporation
Canary joint project with METR
Scorecard
Think tank with CBRN and security expertise; AEF founding member.
Nonprofit, Santa Monica, US. Confidence med. Domains: bio, cyber, assurance. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 71; Regulator or auditor 69; Public trust 70; Equal weights 72. Weakest dimension: publication rights 2/4.
What would move the score. More public model-level findings.
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.
- Large share of AI work funded by Coefficient Giving.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed Coefficient Giving (Wikipedia, 2026) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - FY2024 revenue of about $489M is mostly US government contract research; Coefficient's $87M since 2020 is a small share.
evaluators.csv (24 evaluators: Coefficient and SFF totals, lab money, government contracts, leadership) (Kevin Bass (GitHub), 2026-09-14) tier 2 ledgerunverifiable2026-09-11 - The Audacious commitment to Canary is about $38 million across RAND and METR; RAND's Coefficient grants include $10.5M for emerging technology initiatives.
RAND AI Security Project Receives Funding Commitment Through The Audacious Project (RAND, 2024-10-09) tier 3 selfconfirmed Coefficient Giving grants index (Coefficient Giving, 2026-09-11) tier 1 indeximported2024-10-09
Governance 3/4
Nonprofit or public body with a COI policy.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on governance given the cited signals.
- Government-contracted with long-standing COI and publication norms; AEF founding member.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed AI Evaluator Forum launch and AEF-1 (AI Evaluator Forum, 2025-12-04) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Personnel 3/4
Recusal policy and disclosure of lab ties.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on personnel given the cited signals.
- Institutional COI rules.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
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.
- Access through government channels, including classified work.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Scope control 3/4
Evaluator sets scope and can add questions.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on scope given the cited signals.
- Sets own research agenda.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Publication rights 2/4
Publishes; lab reviews with broad redaction.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 2 on publication given the cited signals.
- Much output is government-restricted rather than public.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Method transparency 2/4
Methods described in prose.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 2 on methods given the cited signals.
- Methods partly public.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Role incompatibility 4/4
No commercial products.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 4 on products given the cited signals.
- No commercial products.
RAND and the AI Evaluator Forum (RAND, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Traced money and ties
hop 2: 1 row (recommendation $1.0M); unattributed: 1 row (commitment $38.0M). Confirmed rows: 2 of 2 (3 quarantined: T02, T58, T59). Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 2 of 2 sources. Ties: none within two steps recorded. Bounded negatives on file: 0.
Ledger
Money in
- T02 from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy): grant $10.00M; quarantined — excluded from sums, 2025-09-20. AI Evaluation and Testing unverifiabletier 1 indexhttps://coefficientgiving.org/grants/ai-evaluation-and-testing/
- T27 from The Audacious Project (TED): commitment $38.00M, 2024-10-09. Canary commitment to RAND with METR as partner confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://www.rand.org/news/press/2024/10/09.html
- T58 from Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy): grant $76.96M; quarantined — excluded from sums, 2020-2025. cumulative Coefficient grants to RAND excluding the $10M in T02 unverifiabletier 1 indexhttps://coefficientgiving.org/
- T59 from US government (NIST appropriations): contract $488.78M; quarantined — excluded from sums, FY2024. FY2024 revenue, mostly federal contract research unverifiabletier 1 filinghttps://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/951958142
- T70 from Survival and Flourishing Fund: recommendation $1.02M, 2025. SFF 2025: $1,022,000 to the Technology and Security Policy Center confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://survivalandflourishing.fund/2025/recommendations
Funding graph, focused
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