{
 "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
 "attribution": "Fide AI, Agentic Cyber Explorer",
 "url": "https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/events/us-caisi-established-2025/",
 "asOf": "2026-09-26",
 "id": "us-caisi-established-2025",
 "date": "2025-06",
 "datePrecision": "month",
 "title": "US AI Safety Institute becomes Center for AI Standards and Innovation with cyber-focused evaluations",
 "lane": "policy",
 "kind": "program",
 "summary": "Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced the US AI Safety Institute would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) within NIST. CAISI was tasked with voluntary agreements with developers and unclassified evaluations focused on demonstrable risks such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical weapons, plus assessment of adversary AI systems for backdoors and other security vulnerabilities.",
 "whyItMatters": "CAISI became the US body that tests frontier and foreign models for cyber capability and later led US work on AI agent security standards.",
 "actors": [
  "us-department-of-commerce",
  "nist",
  "us-caisi"
 ],
 "topics": [
  "regulation-and-policy",
  "capability-evaluation"
 ],
 "atlas": [
  "eval-environment"
 ],
 "artifacts": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.nist.gov/caisi",
   "publisher": "NIST",
   "title": "Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI)",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.nextgov.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/commerce-rebrands-its-ai-safety-institute/405803/",
   "publisher": "Nextgov/FCW",
   "title": "Commerce rebrands its AI Safety Institute",
   "date": "2025-06-04",
   "type": "secondary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  }
 ],
 "keyFacts": [
  {
   "fact": "CAISI's stated remit includes unclassified evaluations of AI capabilities that may pose national security risks, focused on demonstrable risks such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical weapons.",
   "locator": "NIST CAISI page, mission"
  },
  {
   "fact": "CAISI is to evaluate US and adversary AI systems, including potential security vulnerabilities and malign foreign influence.",
   "locator": "NIST CAISI page, mission"
  }
 ],
 "significance": 3,
 "fideQuestions": [],
 "methods": [],
 "review": "assistant-drafted",
 "addedOn": "2026-09-25"
}