AI Security Institute
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| Formation | November 2023 |
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| Services | AI safety research |
Parent organization | Department of Science, Innovation and Technology |
| Website | www |
The AI Security Institute (AISI) is a research organisation under the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom that aims "to equip governments with a scientific understanding of the risks posed by advanced AI".[1] It conducts research, and develops and tests mitigations.[1]
The organisation was created as the AI Safety Institute and renamed in February 2025.[2] Its creation followed the world's first major AI Safety Summit, which was held in Bletchley Park in 2023.[3] The institute's stated goal is "building the world's leading understanding of advanced AI risks and solutions, to inform governments so they can keep the public safe". It is designed like a startup in the government, "combining the authority of government with the expertise and agility of the private sector".[4]
AISI has made access agreements with Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to test their models before release.[3] It has an open-source platform called Inspect that permits companies, governments and academics to run standardised safety tests for AI usage.[3] Among its work is the reported detection of multiple serious vulnerabilities that could enable development of biological weapons; the vulnerabilities were fixed before the model was launched.[3]
It conducts research on diverse fields of AI application. One study by AISI found that large language models (LLMs) post-trained for political persuasiveness became systematically less accurate and up to 51% more persuasive on political issues.[5] AISI has also worked on the usage of AI for emotional needs. It found that nearly 10 percent of UK citizens used systems like chatbots for emotional purposes on a weekly basis.[6] It found that "systems are now outperforming PhD-level researchers on scientific knowledge tests and helping non-experts succeed at lab work that would previously have been out of reach" in a report published in December 2025.[7]
Former chief AI officer of GCHQ Adam Beaumont is the institution's interim director. Jade Leung is the chief technology officer,[4] who in August 2025 was appointed as the prime minister's AI adviser.[8]
See also
[edit]- Alan Turing Institute – UK institute for data science and AI
- Artificial intelligence safety institute – worldwide topic
References
[edit]- 1 2 "AISI". Government of UK. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
- ↑ "Written statements – Written questions, answers and statements – UK Parliament". questions-statements.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2026-03-23.
- 1 2 3 4 "Britain is the closest the world has to an AI safety inspector". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2026-02-20.
- 1 2 "Equipping governments with a scientific understanding of the risks posed by advanced AI". AI Security Institute.
- ↑ "The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence". Science. 2025-12-04.
- ↑ Milmo, Dan (18 December 2025). "Third of UK citizens have used AI for emotional support, research reveals". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-02-20.
- ↑ AISI. Frontier AI Trends Report. December 2025. retrieved on 20 February 2026
- ↑ "Appointment of Jade Leung as the Prime Minister's AI adviser". GOV.UK. DSIT. 15 August 2025. Retrieved 6 August 2026.
