evaluator; distance from a lab: 2
Transluce
Scorecard
Nonprofit oversight-tools lab; convenes the AI Evaluator Forum that wrote AEF-1.
Nonprofit, Berkeley, US. Confidence high. Domains: misuse, autonomy, benchmarks, assurance. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 73; Regulator or auditor 75; Public trust 73; Equal weights 75. Weakest dimension: funding 2/4.
What would move the score. Routine pre-release access under AEF-1 terms.
Funding 2/4
Labs pay per engagement; otherwise diversified.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 2: no money from developers as organizations and no paid evaluations, but 38% of FY2025 revenue came from lab employees' personal holdings, which are lab equity. The disclosure is the best in the population; the exposure is still material.
- Government contracts and philanthropy rather than lab fees.
Governance & Policy Fellow at Transluce (The Economic Misfit (job listing), 2026-04-18) tier 3 selfconfirmed Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI (Manifund, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - FY2025 revenue: 32% from personal holdings of Anthropic employees and 6% from OpenAI employees, unrestricted, disclosed under its own policy; no revenue from developers as organizations.
Independence and Transparency Policy (Transluce, 2026-08-27) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - Open: Whether employee donors are named or bounded in size.
- Open: How the 38% moves in FY2026.
Governance 3/4
Nonprofit or public body with a COI policy.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3: nonprofit with a published COI policy and disclosure duties; board of three includes the CEO, so independent-board evidence is thin.
- Wrote the field's independence standard (AEF-1) through the AI Evaluator Forum and applies it to itself.
AI Evaluator Forum launch and AEF-1 (AI Evaluator Forum, 2025-12-04) tier 3 selfconfirmed Governance & Policy Fellow at Transluce (The Economic Misfit (job listing), 2026-04-18) tier 3 selfconfirmed Evaluation Transparency Letter (AI Evaluator Forum, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - Published independence policy aligned to AEF-1 2.3: annual disclosure of developer-linked revenue share, paid-evaluation disclosure, no organizational equity in developers, third-party ethics hotline.
Independence and Transparency Policy (Transluce, 2026-08-27) tier 3 selfconfirmed Company (Transluce, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Personnel 2/4
Frequent two-way hiring; recusal on request.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 2 (closest fit, provisional): the governance head previously led CAISI and no lab board roles were found (transluce.04), but a current advisor sits on Thinking Machines’ technical staff and a board member runs Halcyon Futures (transluce.12). Provisional readings are open to public correction through the contribution path.
- Head of governance previously led CAISI; no lab board roles found.
Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI (Manifund, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - Mandatory recusal of any employee with a significant financial interest in, or employment by, a system provider from evaluating that provider.
Independence and Transparency Policy (Transluce, 2026-08-27) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - An advisor is on the technical staff of Thinking Machines; a board member runs Halcyon Futures, which funds AVERI and AIUC.
Company (Transluce, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Access depth (lab-granted) 2/4
Pre-release with safeguards off or extended time.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 2 on access given the cited signals.
- Mostly post-deployment access; used in Claude 4 pre-deployment analysis once rather than routinely.
Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI (Manifund, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Scope control 4/4
Evaluator sets scope, can investigate incidents, can refuse sign-off.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 4 on scope given the cited signals.
- Sets its own evaluation questions.
Independent evaluation of model responses to mental health crises (Transluce, 2026-09) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Publication rights 4/4
Full editorial control, record of adverse findings, redaction statements.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 4 on publication given the cited signals.
- Published the largest independent cross-vendor evaluation of responses to mental-health crises (77 variants) without lab sign-off.
Independent evaluation of model responses to mental health crises (Transluce, 2026-09) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Method transparency 4/4
Open code, tasks, reproducible runs, factsheets.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 4 on methods given the cited signals.
- Open tools (Docent) and published methods.
Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI (Manifund, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Role incompatibility 3/4
Tools are open or free to the ecosystem.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3 on products given the cited signals.
- Docent is used inside Anthropic, DeepMind and Thinking Machines, so labs are also tool users.
Transluce: Fund Scalable Democratic Oversight of AI (Manifund, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14
Traced money and ties
hop 1: 2 rows; public: 1 row. Confirmed rows: 3 of 3. Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 3 of 3 sources. Ties: Neil Chowdhury (advisor, distance 1, confirmed). Bounded negatives on file: 2.
Ledger
Money in
- T28 from Anthropic employees (personal holdings): grant undisclosed, FY2025. 32% of FY2025 revenue from personal holdings of Anthropic employees, unrestricted donations (share disclosed, not dollars) confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://transluce.org/independence-and-transparency-policy
- T29 from OpenAI employees (personal holdings): grant undisclosed, FY2025. 6% of FY2025 revenue from personal holdings of OpenAI employees, unrestricted confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://transluce.org/independence-and-transparency-policy
- T30 from EU budget (Digital Europe Programme): contract undisclosed, 2025-12-04. EU AI Office Lot 4 consortium member under EquiStamp; EUR 881,345 to the consortium confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://transluce.org/2025-fundraiser
Bounded negatives
- N06 no grant from Coefficient Giving in its index [Coefficient grants index, 2,911 rows, snapshot 2026-09-11] importedhttps://coefficientgiving.org/grants/
- N16 no revenue directly from AI developers as organizations in FY2025; no paid evaluations to date [organization's own policy disclosure, snapshot 2026-09-14] confirmedhttps://transluce.org/independence-and-transparency-policy
Roles hosted
- R39 Mike McCormick: board. Halcyon Futures CEO; Halcyon funds AVERI and AIUC confirmedhttps://transluce.org/about
- R40 Neil Chowdhury: advisor. Thinking Machines technical staff confirmedhttps://transluce.org/about
- R42 Conrad Stosz: principal. head of governance; previously led CAISI confirmedhttps://transluce.org/about
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