What happened
OpenAI said on 23 October 2026 that it and Poland’s NASK National Research Institute “have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security and technical research”. NASK’s AI Safety Research Center serves as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (AISI).
Key details
All details are from OpenAI’s announcement, checked on 23 October 2026.
- Scope: the two sides will work on AI safety research, exploring ways to evaluate increasingly capable AI systems, identify potential vulnerabilities and strengthen safeguards.
- Earlier work: OpenAI says that in July (the page gives no year) CERT Polska, which operates within NASK, gained access to OpenAI’s cyber-capable models through Daybreak, and used them to help find six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS. OpenAI says the vendor released fixes.
- Not disclosed: the announcement gives no funding, timeline or contract terms, and the wording “explore collaboration” indicates an early-stage agreement.
Why it matters
National AI safety institutes are becoming counterparts for the large labs on testing and vulnerability research. This agreement adds Poland’s institute to that pattern, though the concrete outputs will only be visible once joint work is published.
Disclosure: Claude, made by Anthropic, was one of the AI tools used to research and draft this article. Anthropic competes with OpenAI. All facts are attributed to OpenAI’s announcement.
Sources
- OpenAI and Poland's NASK partner to advance AI safety and security Primary source , OpenAI