Team

Miles Brundage serves as Executive Director at AVERI, where he sets AVERI’s strategic direction, leads the team and builds partnerships to advance AVERI’s mission of making third party auditing of AI systems effective and universal. 

Previously, Miles led the Policy Research and AGI Readiness teams at OpenAI, and before that he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute. 

In addition to leading AVERI, Miles is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Institute for Progress, a member of the AI Governance Forum at the Center for a New American Security, an advisor to Epoch AI and the RAND Corporation, and he writes regularly on Substack. 

Miles completed a Ph.D. in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology from Arizona State University in 2019, and worked at the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Energy (ARPA-E) before beginning his graduate studies.

Research Engineering Lead – Founder, AI Incident Database; founding engineer, Syntiant; founding director, Digital Safety Research Institute, UL Research Institutes; agentic reliability lead, MLCommons.

Executive Assistant/Operations – 8+ years in operations, including founding operations, executive support, events and coaching. Founded/scaled high-impact orgs in biosecurity, including Blueprint Biosecurity and Alvea.

George is Policy and Advocacy Lead at AVERI and leads the organisation's work on building demand for high quality, external assessments of frontier AI systems. 

Previously, George served as Co-Director for Defence & National Security at The Alan Turing Institute, where he directed a cross-functional research portfolio and led a team of 60 staff. He also founded the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS), a research centre advising the national security community on the risks and opportunities of emerging technology.

Prior to this, George worked for the British Government as a Researcher, Data Scientist, and Policy Specialist, developing and delivering early AI capabilities for the national security community.

Interim Chief of Staff/Policy Lead – Strategy & analytics background at Visa and Sandia National Laboratories; M.Sc. (IR & IPE), London School of Economics.

Research Scientist – Incoming Yale CS professor; research on reliable ML at scale, privacy, and AI‑law interface; multiple NeurIPS/ICML honors.