DARPA starts a two-year contest to develop AI-driven cyber security measures

August 9 2023
DARPA is launching a two-year contest named the AI Cyber Challenge in cooperation with AI startups Anthropic and OpenAI, tech giants Microsoft and Google, and the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation. The competition tasks U.S.-based teams with securing essential software, particularly critical infrastructure code, using AI, with $18.5 million in prizes up for grabs. DARPA will also offer $1 million each to up to seven small businesses interested in participating. The initiative aims to leverage recent AI developments to automatically defend software from attacks and secure increasingly utilized open source code, which is prone to vulnerabilities and exploits.
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What does it mean?

  • DARPA: An acronym for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a U.S. government agency that funds and promotes the development of emerging technologies for military use.
  • Vulnerabilities: Weak points or flaws in a software system that can potentially be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access or cause damage.
  • Exploits: Techniques used by attackers to take advantage of vulnerabilities and infiltrate a system or network.
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