Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)

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Gold standard. Rigorous peer review, high editorial standards, and strong institutional reputation.

Rating inherited from publication venue: NIST

CAISI is the institutional home for NIST's AI safety and standards work, directly relevant to AI governance, evaluation frameworks, and policy efforts; a key U.S. government body for understanding official AI safety infrastructure.

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Summary

CAISI is NIST's dedicated center serving as the U.S. government's primary interface with industry on AI testing, security standards, and evaluation. It develops voluntary AI safety and security guidelines, conducts evaluations of AI capabilities posing national security risks (including cybersecurity and biosecurity threats), and represents U.S. interests in international AI standardization efforts.

Key Points

•Serves as the primary U.S. government point of contact for industry collaboration on AI testing and security standards
•Conducts unclassified evaluations of AI capabilities that pose national security risks, including cybersecurity and biosecurity threats
•Develops voluntary standards and guidelines for AI system security in coordination with federal agencies
•Assesses vulnerabilities in foreign AI systems to protect against adversarial AI threats
•Represents U.S. interests in international AI standards bodies to maintain technological competitiveness

Cited by 7 pages

Page	Type	Quality
AI Safety Institutes (AISIs)	Policy	69.0
Capability Elicitation	Approach	91.0
AI Governance Coordination Technologies	Approach	91.0
Dangerous Capability Evaluations	Approach	64.0
Open Source AI Safety	Approach	62.0
Technical AI Safety Research	Crux	66.0
Sharp Left Turn	Risk	69.0

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# Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) will serve as industry’s primary point of contact within the U.S. government to facilitate testing and collaborative research related to harnessing and securing the potential of commercial AI systems. To that end, CAISI will:

- Work with NIST organizations to develop guidelines and best practices to measure and improve the security of AI systems, and work with NIST staff to assist industry to develop voluntary standards.
- Establish voluntary agreements with private sector AI developers and evaluators, and lead unclassified evaluations of AI capabilities that may pose risks to national security. In conducting these evaluations, CAISI will focus on demonstrable risks, such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons.
- Lead evaluations and assessments of capabilities of U.S. and adversary AI systems, the adoption of foreign AI systems, and the state of international AI competition.
- Lead 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.
- Coordinate 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, as well as conduct evaluations and assessments.
- Represent U.S. interests internationally to guard against burdensome and unnecessary regulation of American technologies by foreign governments and collaborate with NIST staff to ensure U.S. dominance of international AI standards.

[Read the statement](https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/06/statement-us-secretary-commerce-howard-lutnick-transforming-us-ai) from Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick about the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.

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