OpenAI has signed an agreement with NASK, Poland's National Research Institute, to explore joint work on AI safety, security and technical research. NASK's AI Safety Research Center acts as Poland's AI Safety Institute, so the deal adds another national body to the list of public evaluators OpenAI works with, alongside the US Center for Advancing Standards and Innovation for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) and the UK AI Security Institute.
The stated aims are broad: finding ways to evaluate increasingly capable systems, identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening safeguards. The more concrete part is what came before. In July, CERT Polska, the national computer emergency team that sits inside NASK, gained access to OpenAI's cyber-capable models through its Daybreak programme. OpenAI says the team used them to help find six vulnerabilities in MikroTik RouterOS, the software on a widely used family of routers, including flaws that could be chained to take over devices without logging in. MikroTik shipped fixes, and CERT Polska confirmed they stopped the attacks it had seen.
OpenAI frames the agreement as part of a push for international technical standards on evaluating capabilities, testing safeguards and reporting incidents, built with the help of national safety institutes. That fits a pattern in our recent coverage: Anthropic giving METR deep access to its models, the UK institute's tests of Claude Mythos 5, and OpenAI's own proposals for cyber defence. Labs increasingly want public bodies inside the evaluation process, partly because governments are asking for it.
The announcement is short on detail. It says nothing about which models NASK will be able to test, how early it will see them, whether it can publish its findings, or how disagreements would be handled. It is described as an agreement to explore collaboration, not a programme with deliverables. The RouterOS work shows the cyber side can produce real fixes; whether the safety research yields public evidence, rather than private reassurance, is the test to watch.