US AI Safety Institute (now CAISI) — Description: The US AI Safety Institute (USAISI), renamed to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) on June 3, 2025, is a government organization within NIST (Department of Commerce) focused on AI evaluation, standards-setting, and security. Under the 2025 reform it serves as industry's primary US-government point of contact for testing and collaborative research on commercial AI systems, and has received 17 taskings under the Trump administration's AI Action Plan. The AISI Consortium (AISIC) established in 2024 carried over under the reform with 280+ member organizations. CAISI operates six technical teams as of April 2026: Agent Security, Applied Systems, Chem/Bio, Cyber, Frontier Assessment, and Partnerships.

NoteThe source confirms the core organizational facts: CAISI is a NIST organization within the Department of Commerce focused on AI evaluation, standards-setting, and security, and serves as industry's primary US government point of contact for testing and collaborative research on commercial AI systems. However, the source text provided does not address several specific claims: the rename date (June 3, 2025), the 17 taskings under Trump administration, the AISI Consortium details (2024 establishment, 280+ members), or the six technical teams structure as of April 2026. These details may exist on the NIST CAISI website but are not present in the excerpt provided. The claim's 'as of 2026-04' timestamp is also beyond what can be verified from the current source text.