AIxCC Initiative - DARPA wants cybersecurity pros to use AI to fix vulnerabilities

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The program takes the form of a two-year-long competition called the “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC), with the aim of using artificial intelligence to help safeguard the country’s most essential software.

The AIxCC initiative is intended to find and fix software vulnerabilities in critical national infrastructure, like electric grids, transportation networks, and public utility and healthcare systems, and the competition promises multi-million dollar rewards for the most effective software security solutions using advanced AI technologies.

The contest will feature a preliminary round in Spring 2024, after which the top 20 teams advance to the semifinals at DEF CON 2024. The top five from this semifinal will then move on to the finals at DEF CON 2025, with the top three finishers securing significant cash rewards.

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) will make itself available to advise participants of the challenge, whose role includes ensuring the prompt application of winning software codes in safeguarding critical American software infrastructure.

Given the multi-round, multi-year nature of the competition, we should expect to see the benefits of new AI discoveries filtering down to the broader public pretty quickly, though it won’t all happen overnight.

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WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the White House have teamed up to announce a new two-year competition to use artificial intelligence to help protect critical software and create new cybersecurity tools in what's essentially a cutting-edge, high- stakes bug bounty program.
Dubbed the “AI Cyber Challenge,” or AIxCC, the effort aims to “challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI,” the White House announced today. Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will lend expertise and technologies to the challenge.

DARPA, White House launch $20M AI, cybersecurity challenge - Breaking Defense

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