The Good | White House Launches AI-Centric Cybersecurity Contest to Protect US Entities
The Biden-Harris administration this week announced a new hacking challenge with the purpose of using artificial intelligence (AI) to protect critical US infrastructure from growing cybersecurity threats. In collaboration with tech companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic who are making their technology available for the competition, the “AI Cyber Challenge” (aka AIxCC) offers up to $20 million in prizes for participating hackers. AIxCC will be led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) who have made an additional $7 million available for SMBs looking to compete. The challenge was announced at Black Hat USA 2023 cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas in line with this years’ theme of generative AI.
I’m excited to announce the AI Cyber Challenge, a major, two-year @DARPA competition challenging the best and the brightest in cybersecurity and AI to secure the systems on which all American rely.https://t.co/mZR4ZNSiaM pic.twitter.com/VF1LiSGijh
— Perri Adams @ Black Hat and DEF CON (@perribus) August 9, 2023
The challenge is a practical exercise in demonstrating the…
