OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security, and technical research. The partnership aims to combine expertise from both organizations to better understand emerging risks, enhance safeguards, and assess how advanced AI can support a more secure digital ecosystem. The collaboration reflects a growing recognition that international cooperation between developers and public research institutions is critical to managing AI risks effectively.

Through the agreement, NASK’s AI Safety Research Center—serving as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI)—and OpenAI will jointly conduct AI safety research. The focus includes evaluating increasingly capable AI systems, identifying vulnerabilities, and strengthening safeguards. OpenAI has previously worked with institutions such as the US Center for Advancing Standards and Innovation for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) and the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) to improve AI safety and address security flaws in AI agents.

OpenAI has advocated for international technical standards for frontier AI, emphasizing collaboration with AI safety institutes and standards bodies worldwide. The partnership with NASK underscores the importance of integrating national expertise into global efforts to develop common approaches for evaluating capabilities, assessing risks, testing safeguards, and reporting incidents. Such coordination aims to ensure that safety measures remain grounded in real-world applications.

The collaboration builds on OpenAI’s existing work with cyber defenders in Poland. In July, CERT Polska, operating under NASK, gained access to OpenAI’s cyber-capable models through Daybreak. The team used these models to identify six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, including flaws that could enable unauthorized control of devices. The vendor issued fixes, which CERT Polska confirmed mitigated the observed attacks.