What AVERI does
AVERI (the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute) is a 501(c)(3) US-based nonprofit focused on making independent, third-party auditing of frontier AI systems practical and widely adopted. Its mission emphasizes audits that can verify AI developers’ safety and security claims and evaluate systems and organizational practices against relevant standards, using “deep, secure access to non-public information” rather than relying only on what companies publish publicly. AVERI describes itself as a “standard-setter grounded in practice,” running pilot audits with leading AI companies and turning those results into technical and policy research, open tools, and industry-wide auditing standards. Its work also targets institutionalization: developing audit criteria (including conflict-of-interest and independence expectations), analyzing the policy requirements that create incentives for rigorous audits, and supporting legislative and regulatory pathways intended to require or strengthen independent evaluations.