Our goal
\nAI agents are already writing code, browsing the web, managing workflows, and beginning to act in the physical world. But while individual agents grow more capable by the day, they still can't securely coordinate with each other, especially in real world scenarios when the stakes are high, the parties are untrusted, and the environment is adversarial.
\nWe are missing the trust infrastructure that would move them from solo operators to secure collaborators. Without it, agents remain either powerful but isolated or acting in the wild with no security at all.
\nThis programme is building that infrastructure: open-source tools and scientific foundations for agents to securely interact across digital and physical worlds, combined with a live adversarial arena to stress-test everything we build.
\nSuccess would unlock a new era of coordination that preserves our plurality, protects our privacy, and creates value we can't yet fully imagine.
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\nOur Programme Directors are supported by a core team that provides a blend of operational coordination and highly specialised technical expertise.
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\nDiscover some of the ways we've shaped this programme.
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Discovery workshops
On 13-14 October, we held a workshop that brought together experts from a range of fields to help shape the direction of a programme in this space through feedback, critique, collaboration and knowledge sharing. Catch up on the various speaker sessions by watching the recordings below.
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