AISI Strategic Vision Document

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This is the foundational strategic document for the U.S. AI Safety Institute, making it essential reading for understanding U.S. federal AI safety policy, institutional priorities, and planned evaluation infrastructure as of its publication.

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Summary

The U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI), housed within NIST, outlines its strategic mission to develop a rigorous science of AI safety through research, testing, evaluation, and guidance. The document identifies core challenges such as lack of standardized safety definitions, immature evaluation methods, and insufficient risk mitigations, and commits to addressing these through community engagement and national/global evaluation networks. It frames safety and beneficial innovation as complementary rather than competing goals.

Key Points

•AISI is established within NIST to advance understanding and mitigation of advanced AI risks while enabling beneficial innovation.
•Core principle: beneficial AI depends on safety, and AI safety depends on rigorous science and evidence-based methods.
•Key challenges identified: no standardized AI safety definitions, underdeveloped testing/evaluation methods, and insufficient risk mitigations.
•AISI plans to build national and international evaluation networks and develop shared tools and frameworks for the broader AI safety community.
•The institute will engage with industry, academia, and international partners to mature the field of AI safety as a scientific discipline.

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# The United States Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute: Vision, Mission, and Strategic Goals

# It is a time of extraordinary advancement in artificial intelligence (AI). A suite of increasingly capable computer systems, models, and agents with capabilities can now perform tasks that were once thought to require human-level intelligence.

More powerful AI systems offer the promise of accelerating scientific discovery, techno logical innovation, and widespread economic growth. But as AI has become more powerful, more generally adept, and widely adopted, that same promise also brings significant risks. Some of those risks have already been recognized as harms; some are only being ap preciated now; and others have not yet been identified. The capability and risk frontier of AI is vast and not yet fully mapped.

Fortunately, history provides us with exam ples where we have successfully navigated the promises and perils of an emerging technology—from aviation to electricity to automobiles to drug development. In each case, safety has been key to unlocking innova tion. But AI presents special safety challeng es: current models and systems are opaque, sometimes unpredictable, and often unreli able. Their development and deployment also generally lack transparency. History also tells us that public and private institutions dedicat ed to science-based safety will be crucial to the achievement of our vision: a future where safe AI innovation enables a thriving world.

The U.S. AI Safety Institute (AISI) exists to help advance the understanding and mitiga tion of risks of advanced AI so that we may all harness its benefits. AISI is housed with in the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal government’s premier body for developing and promoting science-based technological standards. AISI’s research, testing, and guidance will enable more rigorous assessment of AI risk; more effective internal and external safeguards for AI models, systems, and agents; greater public confidence; and ultimately wider and more responsible development and adoption of AI. AISI will prioritize community engagement; publication of usable tools, benchmarks, and guidance; and encouragement of new na tional and global networks for the evaluation and mitigation of AI risk based on accepted science.

# Our vision: a future where safe AI innovation enables a thriving world.

# AISI operates with two key principles in mind: beneficial AI depends on AI safety, and AI safety depends on science.

Safety breeds trust, trust provides confidence in adoption, and adoption accelerates inno vation. Accordingly, AISI’s mission is to help define and advance the science of AI safety. A mature science of AI safety involves a great er understanding of advanced AI model and system capabilities, the adoption of standards for safe AI design and deployment, and the development of safety evaluations of both the systems and their broader impacts. The field of AI sa

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