Defend, adopt, and advance frontier AI.

The Frontier Security Institute is an independent, nonpartisan think tank working between America’s frontier AI companies and the National Security Enterprise.

For National Security Leaders
For Frontier AI Labs

What we do

Three areas of work.
One purpose.

We work in three areas, each built to support the National Security Enterprise: the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, federal agencies, Congress, and our allies. Together they cover frontier AI from how it’s built, to how it’s evaluated and used, to how the United States competes in a world this technology reshapes: defending it, adopting it, and advancing American interests with it.

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Defend

Model Security

Protecting U.S. frontier AI from theft, sabotage, and adversarial attack. We work directly with the frontier labs to close the gap between the threats they face and the authorities the government already holds to answer them.

The near-term aim is practical: line up the security capability organizations already have with the authorities already on the books. In parallel, we build the governance frameworks that keep American AI secure and ahead as the technology matures.

Adopt

Development, Evaluation & Adoption

Making sure the AI government adopts is fit for the mission. The choices that decide whether a system is secure and reliable get made during development, before government reaches testing and approval.

We give government the standards to govern how frontier AI is developed, evaluated, and adopted, and get national security requirements in while a system is still being built. It’s our largest program.

Advance

U.S. Capability for Global AI Governance

Advancing U.S. and allied interests as AI capability accelerates. Working with national security veterans who have negotiated directly with America’s allies and adversaries, we study how the AI race reshapes American power.

We lay out how the United States can advance global governance of AI: managing competition, lowering the risk of miscalculation, and setting durable rules rather than trading away leverage to get them.

What does this look like?

  • Briefings.
  • Closed-door dialogues.
  • Executive education.

For the people building frontier AI, and the people responsible for the nation’s security.

The translation layer

The work in between.

Running through all three programs is one job: translation. The people building frontier AI and the people responsible for the nation’s security are converging on the same problem from two different worlds, with different languages, incentives, and speed. We translate between them, bring them to the same table, and leave behind the standards and trained people that outlast any single briefing.

Isaac “Ike” Harris, Executive Director, Frontier Security Institute

Why us

We know how these decisions get made.

“AI adoption and U.S. strategic advantage are mutually reinforcing, not competing.”

Our leadership comes from senior posts in the uniformed services, Cabinet departments, national security research, and the Intelligence Community. We know how requirements get written, how programs get funded, and where decisions get made.

Meet the team

Work with us.

If you build, field, govern, or oversee frontier AI in a national security context, that’s what we’re here for.

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