OpenAI and Poland’s NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to collaborate on AI safety, security, and technical research. The partnership is meant to combine expertise from both organizations to better understand emerging risks, strengthen safeguards, and explore how advanced AI can support a more secure and resilient digital ecosystem. Under the agreement, NASK’s AI Safety Research Center—serving as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI)—will work with OpenAI on AI safety research, including ways to evaluate increasingly capable AI systems, identify potential vulnerabilities, and strengthen safeguards.

OpenAI frames the collaboration as part of a broader push for international technical standards for frontier AI. It has called for the US to work with other countries, drawing on AI safety institutes and standards bodies. Common approaches to evaluating capabilities, assessing risks, testing safeguards, and reporting incidents, the company argues, can help countries compare evidence and respond to cross-border risks. In that context, NASK brings extensive research in AI safety applied to protecting public services and Poland’s digital information ecosystem. OpenAI’s announcement notes that without national partners like NASK, global AI safety standards risk becoming detached from the realities in which AI is actually used.

The agreement builds on previous work with Polish cyber defenders. In July, CERT Polska, which operates within NASK, gained access to OpenAI’s cyber capable models through Daybreak. Using OpenAI models, the team discovered six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, including flaws that could be combined to take control of affected devices without authentication. The vendor released fixes, and CERT Polska confirmed the fixes prevented the attacks it observed.