OpenAI teams up with Poland’s NASK on AI safety research

OpenAI is inviting a government lab to poke at its homework. The company said on Friday, Oct 23, that it will work with Poland’s NASK National Research Institute on AI safety, security and technical research. The deal lands as reports of AI agents going off-script have pushed safety from a niche research topic to front-page material. What the deal actually covers The partnership runs through NASK’s AI Safety Research Center, which serves as Poland’s national institute for AI safety. Under the agreement, the center and OpenAI plan to explore how to evaluate AI systems as they become more capable. They also intend to hunt for potential vulnerabilities and work on stronger safeguards. NASK Director Radosław Nielek and Tom Duff Gordon, who heads policy for OpenAI in the EMEA region, both stressed that building safer AI requires cooperation between the companies making it and public research institutions. OpenAI also tied the deal to its wider policy agenda. The company has urged the adoption of international standards for frontier AI, meaning the most advanced models at the leading edge of the field. Not their first project together The two organizations already have history. In July 2...