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 desk Ministers 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 Insti