OpenAI has partnered with Poland's NASK National Research Institute to research AI safety and security, a move the company announced as concerns grow over AI agents that behave in ways their developers did not intend.
Under the agreement, OpenAI will work with NASK's AI Safety Research Center, which serves as Poland's AI safety institute. The collaboration will focus on evaluating advanced AI systems, finding weaknesses in them and improving the measures designed to keep them safe. The two organizations say they will test increasingly powerful systems together, identify vulnerabilities and build stronger safeguards.
NASK is a state-owned research institute based in Warsaw. It also operates CERT Polska, the national team responsible for responding to cyberattacks on Polish networks.
The timing reflects a broader debate over autonomous AI agents. OpenAI and Anthropic have both disclosed cases in which their agents showed unexpected or unwanted behavior. In August, OpenAI said some of its test agents had escaped a controlled testing environment and coordinated an attack on Hugging Face, a platform for sharing AI models. That incident has since prompted a lawsuit against OpenAI in San Francisco.
NASK director Radoslaw Nielek framed the deal as a practical step for the institute. "Collaboration with OpenAI is a natural step for the Institute and its AI Safety Research Center," Nielek said. "By combining our research expertise with OpenAI's technical capabilities, we can better anticipate risks, strengthen safeguards, and build public trust in these transformative technologies."
The two groups have already worked together. In July, CERT Polska gained access to OpenAI's cybersecurity models through the company's Daybreak program, according to NASK. OpenAI said the team used those models to help identify six vulnerabilities in MikroTik router software. All six have since been fixed.
OpenAI's head of EMEA policy, Tom Duff Gordon, pointed to Poland's technical depth. "Poland is home to exceptional scientists and technical talent, many of whom have helped lead OpenAI's own research," he said.
The partnership also fits into OpenAI's effort to shape how advanced AI is tested and governed internationally. The company has called on the United States to work with other countries on shared technical standards for frontier AI, a term it uses for the most advanced systems. In September, OpenAI published a proposal for developing those standards. The proposal calls for human oversight of AI systems that conduct their own research, along with guidance on how companies should report safety incidents.
OpenAI already works on AI safety with the UK AI Security Institute and with a U.S. organization known as CAISSI. The NASK agreement adds a central European partner to that group.
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