# Contested concept: institute

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- **Contestedness**: semantic
- **Diagnosis**: The word is used for a new agency, for a collective name for existing agencies, for a research body and for a body that regulates; the proposals talk past each other unless they are told apart.
- **Canonical**: `/concept/institute` (data: `/concept/institute.json`)

## Senses in use
- **a collective name for existing agencies and institutes** — used in 3 claim(s)
- **a body with a mandate to regulate** — used in 1 claim(s)
- **a new independent agency** — used in 1 claim(s)
- **a research body** — used in 1 claim(s)

## Claims using this term
- [The tasks the AI Commission assigns to the AI safety institute should be carried out with existing structures and actors.](/claim/claim_saien_foi_befintliga.md) _(sense: a collective name for existing agencies and institutes)_
- [France's institute INESIA brings four existing agencies and institutes together under one name.](/claim/claim_saien_inesia_fyra.md) _(sense: a collective name for existing agencies and institutes)_
- [An AI safety institute can be set up without creating a new agency.](/claim/claim_saien_kan_utan_ny.md) _(sense: a collective name for existing agencies and institutes)_
- [The institute's main task should be research into AI safety risks.](/claim/claim_saien_kom_forskning.md) _(sense: a research body)_
- [The AI safety institute should be a new independent agency.](/claim/claim_saien_kom_ny_myndighet.md) _(sense: a new independent agency)_
- [The AI safety institute should have a mandate to regulate.](/claim/claim_saien_saisi_mandat.md) _(sense: a body with a mandate to regulate)_