AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI)
State bodies evaluating frontier model risk
The US AI Safety Institute (rebranded CAISI in 2025) and UK AISI, plus an international network, conduct pre-deployment evaluations of frontier models for cyber, bio and autonomy risk. They are becoming the governmental interface for frontier testing and a soft-governance chokepoint on release.
Bodies
US CAISI, UK AISI
Focus
cyber/bio/autonomy evals
How it fits the stack
AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI) with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI) in the AI stack. AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI) with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 3 entities, 2 relationships
- AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI) —supplies→ Evaluation & benchmark infrastructure
- AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI) —partners with→ EU AI Act
Context — capital, rivals, policy · · 3