OpenAI and Poland’s NASK sign AI safety research agreement

OpenAI and Poland’s NASK National Research Institute have signed an agreement to explore collaboration on AI safety, security and technical research. [OpenAI announced the agreement on October 23](https://openai.com/index/openai‑nask‑ai‑safety‑security‑partnership/), placing model evaluation, potential vulnerabilities and safeguards on the partners’ research agenda. The work involves NASK’s AI Safety Research Center, which serves as the Polish Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute. It gives the collaboration a named institutional counterpart and a defined set of research questions, rather than simply announcing a general interest in responsible AI.

In the [announcement](https://openai.com/index/openai‑nask‑ai‑safety‑security‑partnership/), NASK director Radosław Nielek describes the centre’s work as including safeguards against emerging risks, detecting synthetic AI‑generated content, understanding malicious uses and examining the multilingual aspects of those challenges. That scope brings questions about generated content and language into the partnership alongside broader model evaluations. For readers following AI oversight, the useful distinction is between evaluating a system’s capabilities, examining how it could be misused and testing the safeguards intended to constrain that use. OpenAI describes those activities as areas for cooperation; the notice does not provide a completed joint evaluation.

[OpenAI places the NASK agreement](https://openai.com/index/openai‑nask‑ai‑safety‑security‑partnership/) within its push for international technical standards involving AI safety institutes and standards bodies. It identifies capability evaluation, risk assessment, safeguard testing and incident reporting as areas where common approaches could help countries compare evidence. NASK adds a Polish public‑research perspective to that effort. The announcement connects its expertise to protecting public services and Poland’s digital information ecosystem. Those are the settings the proposed research is intended to inform, rather than a new consumer service being opened through the agreement. The public notice does not set out model‑access terms, a timetable for joint deliverables or the text of a safety certification. The concrete development is an agreement and research agenda. Its eventual contribution will depend on the work and evidence the partners produce. *NASK’s building at 12 Kolska Street in Warsaw, photographed on April 20, 2019. Archive institutional context, not the October 2026 agreement signing. Photo: [Adrian Grycuk](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Boston9), via [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Siedziba_NASK_ul._Kolska_12.jpg), [CC BY‑SA 3.0 Poland](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by‑sa/3.0/pl/deed.en). Cropped for display; the photograph and displayed derivatives retain the same licence.*