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