White House Launches AI Cyber Challenge

August 9, 2023

United StatesU.S. Executive Branch

Summary

The White House on August 9, 2023, launched its “AI Cyber Challenge”—a two-year competition led by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that aims to incentivize competitors to “identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.” The White House has highlighted its collaboration with Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI to launch the challenge, which includes almost $20 million in prizes.

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