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The AI Security Institute

UK government research organisation focused on AI safety and security

By open-sourcing not only Inspect, but also our methods and infrastructure where we can, we hope to help researchers, organisations, and other evaluators stand up rigorous evaluation capability without starting from zero. We hope that the Engineering Playbook provides researchers and organisations with valuable insights into our evaluation processes.

AI Verified (Jun 18, 2026)

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By open-sourcing not only Inspect, but also our methods and infrastructure where we can, we hope to help researchers, organisations, and other evaluators stand up rigorous evaluation capability without starting from zero. We hope that the Engineering Playbook provides researchers and organisations with valuable insights into our evaluation processes.

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Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods.

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AI Verified The quote explicitly supports open-sourcing Inspect and infrastructure for researchers and organisations, which directly bears on governments funding open-source AI safety tools as public goods. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified The quote supports open-sourcing Inspect and evaluation infrastructure for researchers and organisations, so the recorded answer 'for' matches the author’s pro-public-goods stance. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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AI Verified Exact wording appears in AISI’s 2026-06-18 blog, which quotes JJ Allaire saying he created Inspect to provide a foundation for governments, researchers, and labs; attribution and wording match. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2mo ago

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

Evaluations should report capability curves, especially when performance may still be rising.

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AI alignment is solvable

A more fundamental fix would be to train the models not to cheat in the first place – but given this kind of behaviour was reported in frontier models more than a year ago, robustly aligning it away may not be easy.

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