Center for AI Standards and Innovation (NIST)
Standards
Active
Tier 1
Overview
NIST’s CAISI is the U.S. government’s primary point of contact for AI testing, standards, and security-oriented collaboration. Reporting indicates this is the renamed successor context to the earlier U.S. AI Safety Institute framing.
Mission & Focus
Primary Focus
Standards
Scope of Safety
Testing, evaluation, and collaborative research to harness and secure commercial AI systems.
Key Programs / Outputs
AI standards developmentCommercial AI testingSafety evaluation frameworksIndustry collaboration
Organisation
Type
Government
Status
Active
Funding Signals
Unknown
Partners / Customers
Unknown
Data Provenance
Scope Confidence
High
Data Confidence
High
Last Verified
2026-03-22
ID
AISF-0009