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AVERI, 2026; retrieved 2026-09-14 tier 3 self (averi)confirmed

About (funding and conflicts)

https://www.averi.org/about

Funders: AIUC, Coefficient, Falls, Ralston, Good Forever, Fathom, Halcyon, Sympatico, non-executive lab employees; no donor majority; recusal rules; Brundage recused from auditing OpenAI two years; sold eligible shares; API credits offered by six labs. [verify 2026-09-15] reachable BUT span(s) not found: averi.10; averi.12 — needs curator review

Signals citing this source

  • AVERI, F (for): Funders disclosed by name (AIUC, Coefficient, Halcyon, Fathom, Sympatico Ventures, individuals) with no donor a majority; donations from non-executive lab employees disclosed; API credits offered by six labs and disclosed.“No donor makes up a majority of our funding”
  • AVERI, P (for): Executive director recused from auditing OpenAI for at least two years after leaving and sold eligible shares; team members' individual holdings disclosed; mandatory recusal for material conflicts.“Miles is recused from directly auditing OpenAI until two years after his October 2024 departure”
  • AVERI, F (against): AIUC, a funder, was seeded by an Anthropic co-founder; Halcyon's CEO chairs Transluce's board; Coefficient's principal is an Anthropic investor. Two of the named funders are two steps from labs.“Our funders include the AI Underwriting Company, Coefficient Giving”
  • AVERI, F (for): Raised $7.5 million toward a $13 million goal at launch; funders named; a search of Coefficient's grants pages found no discrete AVERI grant page though AVERI names Coefficient as a funder.
  • AVERI, G (for): Published conflict-of-interest rules: all employees, board members and contractors disclose conflicts on starting and biannually; material conflicts trigger mandatory recusal or declining the engagement; no cash donations or compensation are accepted from frontier AI companies or their executives; lab API credits and lab-employee donations are disclosed; the most significant conflicts are disclosed publicly.“mitigation steps may include recusing personnel from projects or declining an engagement entirely”
  • AVERI, F (against): AVERI accepts and has received donations from current and former non-executive employees and alumni of frontier AI companies; amounts are not disclosed.“several non-executive employees and alumni of frontier AI companies”
  • AVERI, F (against): AVERI has received API credits "as donations or compensation" from Amazon, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, OpenAI and Thinking Machines Lab; amounts are undisclosed.“We've received API credits as donations or compensation from Amazon, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, OpenAI”

Ledger rows citing this URL

  • T49 named funder; no donor is a majority confirmed
  • T50 named funder confirmed
  • T51 named funder confirmed
  • T65 donations from current and former non-executive employees of frontier AI companies confirmed
  • R47 principal at AVERI confirmed
  • R48 employee at OpenAI confirmed
  • R60 pays at AVERI confirmed
  • R66 employee at Anthropic confirmed
  • R91 pays at AVERI confirmed
  • N17 no single donor is a majority of funding confirmed