NIST renames CAISI to CAISSI, focusing on superintelligence evaluation and standards

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   CSA Labs Research

   CSA interprets EO 14434 and the CAISSI renaming: mostly branding adjustments, with one provision worth noting

   CSA Labs analyzed Executive Order EO 14434, signed on September 29, 2026, which requires executive branch agencies to replace Artificial Intelligence and AI with Super Intelligence and SI in non-statutory communications, and imposes no safety or compliance requirements on the private sector. Section 3(a) of the Executive Order defines the new terms as artificial intelligence under 15 U.S.C. § 9401(3), and therefore does not change existing regulations, contracts, or grants; Section 2(b) explicitly does not require modification of previously issued regulations, presidential actions, contracts, and grants. The only provision with substantive impact is Section 3(b), which requires the President's science and technology assistant to submit a legislative proposal for a federal statutory definition of Super Intelligence within 60 days (approximately November 28, 2026), and to assess whether to modify, expand, or replace the current AI definition. CSA recommends that companies add a terminology cross-reference table, anchor legal and contract citations to their respective texts, and track the definition proposal, rather than rewriting control frameworks around the new terminology.

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   NIST CAISISelected

   NIST renames CAISI to CAISSI, website updates superintelligence evaluation and standards functions

   The official website name of NIST's former CAISI center has been changed to the Center for Superintelligence Innovation and Standards Advancement (CAISSI), whose functions include serving as the primary window for industry engagement with the U.S. government, and promoting testing and collaborative research on commercial SI systems. The center will work with NIST agencies to develop guidelines and best practices for measuring and improving SI system safety, and assist industry in developing voluntary standards. CAISSI will also establish voluntary agreements with private-sector SI developers and evaluators, lead unclassified evaluations of SI capabilities that could endanger national security, and focus on verifiable risks such as cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons. In addition, the center is responsible for assessing the capabilities of U.S. and adversary SI systems, the adoption of foreign SI systems, and the international competitive landscape, and for assessing security vulnerabilities and foreign malicious influence that adversary SI systems may pose, including covert malicious behaviors such as backdoors. CAISSI will coordinate evaluation methods with the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the intelligence community, and will maintain U.S. leadership in SI standards internationally.

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