Security News > 2023 > August > White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge

The new AI cyber challenge will have a number of different phases.

Interested would-be competitors can now submit their proposals to the Small Business Innovation Research program for evaluation and, eventually, selected teams will participate in a 2024 "Qualifying event." During that event, the top 20 teams will be invited to a semifinal competition at that year's DEF CON, another large cybersecurity conference, where the field will be further whittled down.

To secure the top spot in DARPA's new competition, participants will have to develop security solutions that do some seriously novel stuff.

"To win first-place, and a top prize of $4 million, finalists must build a system that can rapidly defend critical infrastructure code from attack," said Perri Adams, program manager for DARPA's Information Innovation Office, during a Zoom call with reporters Tuesday.

In other words: the government wants software that is capable of identifying and mitigating risks by itself.

I was a big fan of DARPA's AI capture-the-flag event in 2016, and am happy to see that DARPA is again inciting research in this area.

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