Inside the government competition to create AI security tools

AXIOS August 13, 2024
Sam Sabin

Generative AI’s promise to automatically detect and patch security flaws in code is nearly a reality — as seen during a government-backed competition at the DEF CON hacker conference over the weekend.

Why it matters: Critical infrastructure organizations, including hospitals and water systems, are being bombarded with unsophisticated but debilitating cyberattacks.

• Automating simple cyber practices — like scanning and remediating bugs in code — can go a long way in squashing the deluge of incidents.

Driving the news: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the finalists for its AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) at DEF CON on Sunday.

• The challenge awards prizes to cybersecurity teams that want to train large language models (LLMs) to detect and fix...

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