# Ensure AI systems are safe, secure and robust throughout their lifecycle

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation (white paper and government response)
- **Jurisdiction**: United Kingdom
- **Category**: risk_management
- **Binding**: No
- **Provision**: Principle 1, Part 3

## In brief

Ensure AI systems are safe, secure and robust throughout their lifecycle is a voluntary measure under the UK AI regulation framework in the United Kingdom (Principle 1, Part 3). Regulators are asked to ensure AI systems function in a robust, secure and safe way, with risks continually identified, assessed and managed.

## What the duty requires

Regulators are asked to ensure AI systems function in a robust, secure and safe way, with risks continually identified, assessed and managed. In practice this is enforced through existing safety, security and data-protection law rather than a new duty.

## What an organisation does about it

Run lifecycle risk assessments and keep security testing evidence that you can show a regulator.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI risk assessment and lifecycle risk register (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-risk-assessment
- Accuracy, robustness, fairness and security testing (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/accuracy-robustness-security-testing

## Parent instrument

- A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation (white paper and government response)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-regulation-white-paper
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/uk-ai-regulation-white-paper.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0072 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0072; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/uk-principles-safety-security-robustness
- **Official source**: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-regulation-a-pro-innovation-approach
- **Provision**: Principle 1, Part 3
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Ensure AI systems are safe, secure and robust throughout their lifecycle (UK AI regulation framework)" [AIPT-OBL-0072, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0072 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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