The International Network of AI Safety Institutes, a consortium of different national AI safety organisations, is reconfiguring its focus onto AI model measurements and evaluation.

The international coalition is spearheaded by the UK AI Security Institute, and includes Australia, Canada, the EU, France, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, Singapore, and the US.

With its change in focus, the coalition will now be known as the International Network for Advanced AI Measurement Evaluation and Science.

The transition shows the group’s shift in priority toward ensuring that the science of evaluating and measuring AI – key metrics in ensuring its safety and responsible deployment – continues to keep pace with the technology’s advancements.

“Trust in AI isn’t optional – it’s critical. That’s what the work of the Network and our new role as its co-ordinator will help drive,” Kanishka Narayan, the UK’s AI Minister, said.

“By uniting nations on evaluation and research, we’ll lead from the front, shape the future and unlock AI’s benefits for everyone.”

The UK’s AI Security Institute will take on the role of network coordinator, aiming to improve the coalition’s scientific measurements of AI.

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“Advanced AI systems are being developed and deployed globally, so our approach to evaluating them has to be global too. That is why this Network is so important,” Adam Beaumont, interim director of the AI Security Institute, said.

“Our focus will be on supporting partners to develop rigorous, practical ways of testing advanced AI.”

Since its founding in 2024, the UK’s own institute for AI safety has gone through its own rebrand. In February of this year, it changes its name from the AI Safety Institute to the AI Security Institute as it shifted its focus on national security.