OpenAI signs AI safety pact with Poland's NASK
OpenAI and Poland's NASK, which hosts the country's AI Safety Institute, agreed to explore joint safety and security research, adding another national partner to OpenAI's network of government evaluators.
OpenAI and Poland's NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security and technical research.
Under the agreement, NASK's AI Safety Research Center, which serves as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), will work with OpenAI on safety research. The stated focus is on ways to evaluate increasingly capable AI systems, find potential vulnerabilities and strengthen safeguards. The announcement does not give specific projects, funding, timelines or terms for model access.
OpenAI presents the deal as an extension of its existing work with public research bodies, including the US Center for Advancing Standards and Innovation for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) and the UK AI Security Institute. The company has called for the US to work with other countries on international technical standards for frontier AI. It argues that shared approaches to capability evaluation, risk assessment, safeguard testing and incident reporting would let countries compare evidence on risks that cross borders.
The most concrete detail is earlier work in cybersecurity. In July, CERT Polska, which operates within NASK, got access to OpenAI's cyber-capable models through Daybreak. According to OpenAI, the team used the models to help find six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, including flaws that could be chained to take control of affected devices without authentication. MikroTik released fixes, and CERT Polska confirmed they stopped the attacks it had observed.