The National Security Council, chaired by the Federal Chancellor, has decided to set up an AI Security Institute in Germany.
The institute will analyze the capabilities and risks of modern AI models, boost cooperation with similar bodies abroad, and develop shared standards with international partners. The goal is to assess how advanced AI models affect cybersecurity in Germany.
According to IT industry group Bitkom, the "German AI Security Institute (DE-AISI)" is explicitly modeled after Britain's UK AISI. That organization has drawn international attention with extensive pre-release testing on security risks in Anthropic's Mythos series and GPT-5.5. "A DE-AISI should follow the British model of the UK AI Security Institute and its unique approach as closely as possible," Bitkom writes.
According to Bitkom, DE-AISI needs top technical talent with an international reputation to test AI models on equal footing with frontier providers like Anthropic or OpenAI. The group is pushing for salaries outside standard public pay scales, agile structures, secure infrastructure, and political backing at the highest level.
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