The U.S. AI Safety Institute is a joint public and private sector research group and data-sharing space for “AI creators and users, academics, government and industry researchers, and civil society organizations,” according to NIST.

Organizations could apply to become members between Nov. 2, 2023 and Jan. 15, 2024. Out of more than 600 interested organizations, NIST chose 200 companies and organizations to become members. Participating organizations include Apple, Anthropic, Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Hugging Face, Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Salesforce and other companies, academic institutions and research organizations.

Those members will work on projects including:

• Developing new guidelines, tools, methods, protocols and best practices to contribute to industry standards for developing and deploying safe, secure and trustworthy AI.
• Developing guidance and benchmarks for identifying and evaluating AI capabilities, especially those capabilities that could cause harm.
• Developing approaches to incorporate secure development practices for generative AI.
• Developing methods and practices for successfully red-teaming machine learning.
• Developing ways to authenticate AI-generated digital content.
• Specifying and encouraging AI workforce skills.