THE AI SAFETY ECOSYSTEM
Find the initiatives
already doing the work.
Explore programs, evaluators, standards bodies, research networks, and deployment partners—plus the most useful question to ask each one.
Seeded by Yondon Fu's multi-agent alignment ecosystem research and expanded with primary announcements.Research current through August 27, 2026
ECRI AI error reporting
AI incident reporting and independent patient-safety investigation
AI Agency Protocol
Purpose-bound, expiring authority for autonomous AI agents
Frontier AI Critical Defense Program
Virtual patching for AI-discovered critical-infrastructure vulnerabilities
Democratic AI oversight initiative
Capacity, training, and tools for oversight of government AI use
Cooperative AI Foundation
Field builder, funder, and research network
ARIA Scaling Trust
Large R&D program and planned Arena
UK AISI / Inspect Cyber
Open evaluation infrastructure and international testing
NIST / CAISI / NCCoE
Standards, measurement, identity, and authority
Agentic AI Foundation ecosystem
Protocols, tool connectivity, gateways, and neutral governance
DARPA agentic cyber programs
Advanced contested-autonomy and cyber R&D
Independent AI safety evaluators
Independent evaluation and strategic-behavior research
Academic cooperative AI network
Foundational mechanisms and measurement
Commercial system-safety research
Empirical system-safety research and open tools
Agentic security standards ecosystem
Threat models and practitioner translation
International AI safety testing network
International testing, regulatory translation, and capacity building
Agentic security vendors
Deployment laboratories and operational data holders