evaluator; distance from a lab: 1
UK AI Security Institute
Scorecard
Largest state evaluation team; 30+ models tested; Inspect open-sourced; Frontier AI Trends Report.
Government, London, UK. Confidence high. Domains: cyber, bio, jailbreak, autonomy, assurance. Scores by preset: Lab procurement 75; Regulator or auditor 74; Public trust 73; Equal weights 78. Weakest dimension: publication rights 2/4.
What would move the score. Statutory footing with power to compel testing and publish per-model findings.
Funding 3/4
Mostly philanthropic or public money; some lab-linked pooled funds.
evidence: tier 3 (self)
Anchor 3: public core budget, but the institute runs a lab-funded grant pool, which is lab money passing through it even if not into its evaluation budget.
- Taxpayer funded; no commercial relationship with labs.
AI Security Institute (renaming) (Regulations.ai, 2026-09) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - AISI administers the Alignment Project, a GBP 27m grant pool that includes GBP 5.6m from OpenAI and money from Anthropic, Microsoft and AWS; core budget of about GBP 66m per year is public.
Alignment Project grants (UK AI Security Institute, 2025) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-09-14 - The Alignment Project took £5.6m from OpenAI. The £27m/£12m totals, the wider backer list, and OpenAI’s non-influence statement are per the cited sources; spans not yet captured.
Funding 60 projects to advance AI alignment research (UK AI Security Institute, 2026-02) tier 3 selfconfirmed About the Alignment Project (UK AI Security Institute, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed Advancing independent research on AI alignment (OpenAI, 2026) tier 3 selfconfirmed2026-02 - Open: Whether Alignment Project funds touch evaluation staff or infrastructure.
Governance 3/4
Nonprofit or public body with a COI policy.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3: public body with civil-service conflict rules (ukaisi.08). No tier-1 source for an independent board or external review, so 4 is unearned under the tier rule (C10).
- Public body with civil-service conflict rules.
AI Security Institute (renaming) (Regulations.ai, 2026-09) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Personnel 3/4
Recusal policy and disclosure of lab ties.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on personnel given the cited signals.
- Staff move between the institute and labs in both directions.
UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Access depth (lab-granted) 3/4
Helpful-only or weights-level access, chain of thought, logs, on-site.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on access given the cited signals.
- No statutory powers; access rests on MOUs any lab could decline to renew; Frontier AI Bill not introduced as of September 2026.
UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed AI Security Institute (renaming) (Regulations.ai, 2026-09) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - Joint testing with the US institute; agreements with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Cohere; 30+ models tested.
UK AI Security Institute (AI Wiki, 2026-05-07) tier 4 pressconfirmed UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Scope control 3/4
Evaluator sets scope and can add questions.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 3 on scope given the cited signals.
- Sets its own evaluation agenda within MOU terms.
UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Publication rights 2/4
Publishes; lab reviews with broad redaction.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 2 on publication given the cited signals.
- Found universal jailbreaks in every system tested and published that in the Frontier AI Trends Report.
UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14 - Most per-model results stay confidential; the public sees aggregated trends.
UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Method transparency 4/4
Open code, tasks, reproducible runs, factsheets.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 4 on methods given the cited signals.
- Open-source Inspect framework and published methodology.
UK AISI's Frontier AI Trends Report: Security Implications (Cloud Security Alliance, 2026-07-12) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Role incompatibility 4/4
No commercial products.
evidence: tier 4 (press)
Anchor 4 on products given the cited signals.
- No commercial products.
AI Security Institute (renaming) (Regulations.ai, 2026-09) tier 4 pressconfirmed2026-09-14
Traced money and ties
hop 0: 2 rows (grant $7.5M); public: 1 row. Confirmed rows: 2 of 3. Dollar sums: confirmed + unaudited USD rows only; imported figures are not re-derived and never summed. Second hop traced for 2 of 2 sources. Ties: none within two steps recorded. Bounded negatives on file: 1.
Ledger
Money in
- T45 from UK government (DSIT): grant undisclosed, FY. core budget about GBP 66m per financial year confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://www.aisi.gov.uk/about
- T46 from OpenAI: grant $7.50M, 2025. GBP 5.6m into the Alignment Project grant pool administered by AISI, alongside Anthropic, Microsoft, AWS and others confirmedtier 3 selfhttps://openai.com/index/advancing-independent-research-ai-alignment/
- T78 from OpenAI: commitment undisclosed, 2026-02. GBP 5.6m into the Alignment Project (£27m total); GBP not converted unauditedtier 3 selfhttps://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/funding-60-projects-to-advance-ai-alignment-research
Bounded negatives
- N08 no grant from Coefficient Giving in its index [Coefficient grants index, 2,911 rows, snapshot 2026-09-11] importedhttps://coefficientgiving.org/grants/
Roles hosted
- R61 OpenAI: pays, 2025. into the Alignment Project pool; imported kevinnbass/metr-money-figure:EV11 importedhttps://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants
- R62 Anthropic: pays, 2025. as above importedhttps://www.aisi.gov.uk/grants
- R85 Halcyon Futures: pays, 2026. research pass 2026-09-15; Alignment Project backer unauditedhttps://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/about
- R86 Sympatico Ventures: pays, 2026. research pass 2026-09-15; Alignment Project backer unauditedhttps://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/about
- R87 Microsoft: pays, 2026. research pass 2026-09-15; Alignment Project backer unauditedhttps://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/about
- R88 Amazon: pays, 2026. research pass 2026-09-15; AWS, Alignment Project backer unauditedhttps://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/about
- R89 Schmidt Sciences: pays, 2026. research pass 2026-09-15; Alignment Project backer unauditedhttps://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/about
- R90 Renaissance Philanthropy: contractor, 2025. research pass 2026-09-15; administers the Alignment Project unauditedhttps://alignmentproject.aisi.gov.uk/about
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