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Towards a Systematic Approach to AI Supply Chain Security
Securing the AI supply chain is foundational to developing and maintaining organisational and societal resilience.
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Mitigating AI Security Risks to Support National Security and Economic Growth
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Connect the ecosystem
Bring academia, industry and government together to explore priority questions in AI security.
Strengthen secure practice
Help shape approaches organisations can use when developing or deploying AI in real settings.
Build shared insight
Support clearer understanding of AI security challenges by highlighting trends and emerging themes.
Support commercialisation
Commercialise AI security research, surface and accelerate growth of AI security solutions in the market.
About the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR)
AI is embedded in critical systems and everyday services. LASR, launched in 2024 at the NATO Cyber Defence Conference as a UK public‑private initiative, helps identify where risks and opportunities are emerging across the AI ecosystem. Its purpose is to strengthen UK national security and defence while supporting commercial advantage by using the full potential of UK government, academia and industry to increase national and international AI security - enabling better detection, disruption and deterring of threats to and from AI.
LASR’s research insights
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Academic research forms the foundation of LASR. Universities and research groups help surface emerging questions, deepen understanding, and identify novel solutions.
Industry
Industry includes partnering with both large and small organisations. Their real‑world experience developing, deploying and securing AI reveals pressures, threats and gaps that help guide research focus and develop new capabilities.
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The LASR Pillars help align activity across the AI security ecosystem, supporting clearer understanding and more coordinated approaches.
LASR Partners
Academia
Queen's University Belfast
The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) is the UK’s Innovation & Knowledge Centre for cyber security. This research institute, based at Queen’s University Belfast, combines research excellence with translation and innovation driven by collaboration with industry, other areas of academia and public sector stakeholders. As a partner within LASR, CSIT will be the Cyber-AI nexus: pioneering AI and Cyber security synergies in the UK where companies and academia collaborate on the advancement and demonstration of AI-based security technologies and build leading edge capacity that will drive growth in their companies and beyond.
Academia
University of Oxford
Bringing together expertise from 5 departments and the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, the University of Oxford is contributing cutting-edge research in AI security, supply chain risks, and national cybersecurity preparedness. Our multidisciplinary approach ensures that LASR not only addresses emerging AI challenges but also translates insights into practical, real-world solutions. We’re advancing fundamental and applied research, supporting a new generation of researchers, and shaping policy and practice in AI security ensuring that AI technologies remain robust, secure, and beneficial to society.
Academia
The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for AI and data science. The Turing’s Defence and National Security Grand Challenge works in close collaboration with the UK Government to deliver high value research to support the UK’s strategic advantage in AI. The Turing will be delivering research to support the national security objectives of LASR and collaborating with broader academic partners in the UK and close allied nations through programmes of curated research in academia. If you are a UK HEI active in the AI security field, and are interested in collaboration, please get in contact.
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Industry
Plexal
Plexal is leading LASR’s engagement with industry—big and small, local and global—to address real-world AI security challenges, build confidence, and drive adoption. An innovation company headquartered at London’s Here East campus, Plexal is convening the AI security ecosystem to drive global collaboration and deliver on the LASR mission. Working with startups, large industries, investors, and academia, we’re tackling strategic challenges facing government and businesses across the UK. By bridging supply and demand, we accelerate AI security innovation, bringing capabilities to market faster.
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How the LASR partnership works
The LASR partnership is guided by a triple helix approach, supporting coordination, shared capability and clearer understanding across the AI security ecosystem. Each partnership route is shaped by defined objectives, agreed safeguards and alignment with areas where joint work can offer value.
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Provide a short overview of the system, dataset or scenario you are exploring, including the context in which it is developed or deployed. This helps identify whether a potential collaboration aligns with LASR’s research focus.
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