US AI Safety Institute (CAISI/NIST)
Federal body for AI model evaluation and standards
Housed at NIST and reframed under the 2025 administration as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), this body sets federal evaluation frameworks and pre-deployment testing norms for frontier models. Alongside the UK AI Safety Institute, it shapes whether and how governments gate frontier releases. It is the emerging US public-sector counterparty to the labs.
How it fits the stack
US AI Safety Institute (CAISI/NIST) 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.
US AI Safety Institute (CAISI/NIST) in the AI stack. US AI Safety Institute (CAISI/NIST) 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.
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