At the Direction of President Biden, Department of Commerce to Establish U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute to Lead Efforts on AI Safety

Record US-05

Issued by: U.S. Department of Commerce / NIST
Jurisdiction: United States
Level · region: National · North America
Published / adopted: 2023-11-01
Last updated: 2025-06-03
Language: English

Summary

Announcement of a new U.S. AI Safety Institute, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the Department of Commerce, as part of NIST's response to Executive Order 14110. The institute was to build on the AI Risk Management Framework to improve organizations' ability to evaluate and validate AI systems, partner with other agencies on evaluating AI capabilities, limitations, risks and impacts and on building testbeds, and work with ally and partner countries to share best practices and align capability evaluation and red-team guidance and benchmarks. An AI Safety Institute Consortium supports its work.

Safety topics

safety instituteevaluation & testinginternational cooperation

Open question

checker: The press release (title) could not be stored; title has no stored evidence and the evidence script reports it. Other fields rest on alt-official NIST documents, so level A is not reachable. Summary now follows NIST's own description. Scope core. Step 4 search on 18 Oct 2026 for an amendmen Issue #135

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Status notes

Announced on 1 November 2023 at the UK's AI Safety Summit 2023, in which Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo took part, as part of NIST's response to Executive Order 14110 (US-04). On 2 November 2023 NIST called for participants in the AI Safety Institute Consortium, a core element of the institute. The Commerce Secretary's statement of 3 June 2025 transformed the institute into the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) within NIST (US-15). By October 2026 NIST presents the center as the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI).

Sources

Open the official source https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2023/11/direction-president-biden-department-commerce-establish-us-artificial

Local copy

Download failed. The official source could not be downloaded: HTTP 403 Forbidden. The browser retry also failed (Browser could not load the page: Page.goto: Timeout 45000ms exceeded.). Last attempt 2026-10-17 22:11:55 UTC

Verification

Not confirmed on an official page; the record rests on secondary sources. Check it before citing. checked 2026-10-18 · search-confirmed

CAUTION: no official source confirms the title, date and status; the record rests on secondary sources. PARTIAL. Recheck of 17 Oct 2026: the press release itself is not stored. commerce.gov answered every attempt with HTTP 403 (11, 16 and 17 Oct 2026) and the browser retry timed out, so the title rests on version 1 and on no stored file. Stored in this run from nist.gov: NIST's news release of 2 Nov 2023, which says the institute was 'announced yesterday' and describes its tasks (date_published, issuing body, summary); the CAISI evaluation report of September 2025, which dates the Commerce Secretary's tasking of CAISI to 3 Jun 2025 and cites his statement transforming the institute into CAISI (status, date_last_updated); and the CAISSI page (the current name). These are other NIST documents, not the press release, so they count at most as alt-official evidence. The White House fact sheet of 1 Nov 2023 could not be stored (DNS lookup failed). The summary now follows NIST's description of the institute; version 1's 'lead federal AI safety work', 'standards for authenticating AI-generated content' and 'allied safety institutes such as the UK's' are not in a stored file and were dropped, and the topic 'general-purpose / frontier AI' was removed for the same reason.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 4 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "us-caisi", "id": "US-15"}, {"slug": "us-eo-14110", "id": "US-04"}, {" → [{"slug": "us-caisi", "id": "US-15"}, {"slug": "us-eo-14110", "id": "US-04"}, {" — two-way link added: US-09 link(s) to US-052026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18verification.level: A → C — level computed from the evidence by tools/pipeline.py2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18notes: Announced 1 Nov 2023 during the UK AI Safety Summit, implementing EO 14110. Reor → Announced on 1 November 2023 at the UK's AI Safety Summit 2023, in which Commerc — rewritten from the stored NIST files: the summit, EO 14110, the consortium, the 3 Jun 2025 transformation into CAISI and the CAISSI name2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18safety_topics: ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "general-purpose / frontier AI", "i → ["safety institute", "evaluation & testing", "international cooperation"] — 'general-purpose / frontier AI' removed: no stored file ties the institute to frontier models; the other three topics are supported by NIST's description2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18summary: Announced the creation of the U.S. AI Safety Institute (USAISI) within NIST to l → Announcement of a new U.S. AI Safety Institute, led by the National Institute of — rewritten from NIST's news release of 2 Nov 2023, the only stored official description of the institute's tasks; version 1's claims that no stored file supports were dropped2026-10-17-recheck-north-america-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), now CAISSI United States · Published (non-binding, current)

EO 14110 (Biden AI Executive Order) United States · Revoked / withdrawn

NIST AI 800-1 United States · Draft / proposed

National Security Memorandum on AI (NSM-25) United States · Revoked / withdrawn

Citation

U.S. Department of Commerce / NIST. At the Direction of President Biden, Department of Commerce to Establish U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute to Lead Efforts on AI Safety. 2023-11-01. https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2023/11/direction-president-biden-department-commerce-establish-us-artificial. Status: Superseded; verified 2026-10-18 (level C). Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-05.

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