What United States Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) - Successor to the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) at NIST; Industry Primary Contact for Federal AI Testing, Voluntary Standards, National Security AI Capability Evaluations, and US International AI Standards Leadership (Trump Administration Reorganization, 2025) requires
The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) is the successor entity to the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) at NIST, established under the Trump administration's AI policy reorganization. CAISI serves as industry's primary point of contact within the US government to facilitate testing and collaborative research related to harnessing and securing the potential of commercial AI systems. CAISI's mandate is materially different from its predecessor AISI: where AISI focused on AI safety evaluations and pre-deployment testing of frontier models, CAISI emphasises national-security capability evaluations of US and adversary AI systems, US international AI standards leadership, and protection against foreign regulatory capture of US AI technology. CAISI's specific functions, as articulated on the NIST CAISI page, include: (1) working with NIST organizations to develop guidelines and best practices to measure and improve the security of AI systems, and assisting industry to develop voluntary standards; (2) establishing voluntary agreements with private-sector AI developers and evaluators, and leading unclassified evaluations of AI capabilities that may pose risks to national security - focusing on demonstrable risks such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons; (3) leading evaluations and assessments of capabilities of US and adversary AI systems, the adoption of foreign AI systems, and the state of international AI competition; (4) leading evaluations and assessments of potential security vulnerabilities and malign foreign influence arising from use of adversaries' AI systems, including the possibility of backdoors and other covert, malicious behavior; (5) coordinating with other federal agencies and entities - including the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Intelligence Community - to develop evaluation methods and conduct evaluations and assessments; and (6) representing US interests internationally to guard against burdensome and unnecessary regulation of American technologies by foreign governments, and collaborating with NIST staff to ensure US dominance of international AI standards. CAISI is operationalising its mandate through CRADAs (e.g., with OpenMined), MOUs (e.g., with the General Services Administration to support AI evaluation at the federal-procurement stage for USAi), and the publication of NIST AI 800-series technical reports including NIST AI 800-3 (statistical validity of LLM evaluations) and NIST AI 800-4 (post-deployment AI practices). General inquiries: [email protected].
Pillar: AI Governance & Law · Authority: United States Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST); CAISI is the successor entity to the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) within NIST; established by the Trump administration via Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick's statement; operates under FISMA 2014 statutory authority and OMB Circular A-130 · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.nist.gov/caisi
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- CAISI - established by the Trump administration as successor to the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) at NIST; statement from Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announcing CAISI
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