Introducing the AI Security Institutes tracker

Crossposted from the Accelerate Europe Substack. On 16 July 2026, Hugging Face revealed that its production infrastructure had been breached. A swarm of 700 autonomous AI agents had broken out during a cybersecurity test run by OpenAI, which later acknowledged the incident, calling it a ‘warning shot’. This incident has brought AI security onto every government’s agenda. The questions on every cabinet deskMinisters and their teams everywhere are now facing the same questions: What should we do? What have others already done? Where do we start? Increasingly, the answer is a specialised institute that can evaluate frontier AI systems and help governments prepare for the risks they present. An AI Security Institute. Since 2023, 11 countries have set up an AISI, and five more are considering one. Existing AISIs reflect each country’s unique approach, with different institutional models and sizes of financial investment. This lack of a common template means officials looking for guidance have to rely on sources scattered across the web, such as press releases, budget annexes, and blog posts. At Accelerate Europe, we have built a tool to support them. Introducing the AI Security Institutes trackerThe AISI tracker brings together all the available information in one place and adds new figures and details as they emerge, offering an up-to-date view of the AISI landscape. An interactive world map shows the current region-by-region picture of national institutes, whether established, planned, proposed or still being explored. By clicking on each country, users can see the most relevant information about its AISI: mandate, institutional set-up, leadership, partners, funding, staff and known activity. The tracker also lets you compare the institutes side by side: Which have privileged access to test frontier models? How are they set up? How do their budgets and staff differ? Every figure comes with a link to its original source, and the data can be downloaded as CSV and JSON. A