OpenAI and Poland's NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security and technical research. The partnership will bring together expertise from both organizations to better understand emerging risks, strengthen safeguards, and explore how advanced AI can contribute to a more secure and resilient digital ecosystem.
As AI systems grow more capable, international collaboration between developers and public research institutions will be essential. OpenAI's existing work with the US Center for Advancing Standards and Innovation for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and other public research institutions has already helped strengthen safeguards, identify and fix security vulnerabilities in AI agents, and advance frontier AI safety.
Under the agreement, NASK's AI Safety Research Center, serving as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI), and OpenAI will collaborate on research into ways to evaluate increasingly capable AI systems, identify potential vulnerabilities and strengthen safeguards. OpenAI has called for the US to work with countries worldwide on international technical standards for frontier AI. Common approaches to evaluating capabilities, assessing risks, testing safeguards and reporting incidents can help countries compare evidence and respond to cross-border risks.
The agreement also builds on OpenAI's existing work with cyber defenders in Poland. In July, CERT Polska, which operates within NASK, gained access to OpenAI's cyber-capable models through Daybreak. The team used OpenAI models to help discover six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, including flaws that could be combined to take control of affected devices without authentication. The vendor released fixes, which CERT Polska confirmed prevented the attacks it observed.
Source: OpenAI Blog · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing