Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), NIST: renamed from the AI Safety Institute; now styled Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI)

Summary

On Tuesday, June 3, 2025, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the U.S. AI Safety Institute at NIST would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), with more emphasis on commercial AI while continuing evaluations of security risks. NIST's page, now titled Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI), describes the center as industry's main government point of contact for testing and collaborative research, working on voluntary standards and voluntary agreements with developers, and focusing evaluations on demonstrable risks such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical weapons. The renaming follows Executive Order 14434 (September 29, 2026), which directs agencies to use 'Super Intelligence' in place of 'Artificial Intelligence'. CAISI has published research including a December 2025 write-up on AI models cheating on agent evaluations.

Key dates

1. June 3, 2025 (renamed CAISI)Takes effect
2. June 3, 2025Issued
3. October 16, 2026Checked against sources
4. October 21, 2026Checked against sources

Developments are added when the record is reviewed. Next review: January 15, 2027.

Evidence

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1. The Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) will serve as industry’s primary point of contact within the U.S. government

   Supports: Current name and role

   In conducting these evaluations, CAISSI will focus on demonstrable risks, such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons.

   Supports: Evaluation focus

   Cheating On AI Agent Evaluations December 2, 2025

   Supports: Agent-evaluation cheating research

   Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) NIST Primary source

2. will be renamed as the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. Announced on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed the former U.S. AI Safety Institute will be updated

   Supports: June 2025 rename

   By Alexandra Kelley | June 4, 2025

   Supports: Article date (rename announced the preceding Tuesday, June 3)

   Commerce rebrands its AI Safety Institute Nextgov/FCW Reporting or analysis

3. the executive branch shall use the terms "Super Intelligence" and "SI" in place of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI"

   Supports: Basis for the CAISSI styling

   Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence (EO 14434) Office of the Federal Register (federalregister.gov) Primary source