Biden-Harris Administration Launches Artificial Intelligence Cyber
Challenge to Protect America’s Critical Software
Several leading AI companies – Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI –
to partner with DARPA in major competition to make software more secure
The Biden-Harris Administration today launched a major
two-year competition that will use artificial intelligence (AI) to protect the
United States’ most important software, such as code that helps run the
internet and our critical infrastructure. The “AI Cyber Challenge”
(AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and
fix software vulnerabilities using AI. Led by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), this competition will include collaboration with
several top AI companies – Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI – who are
lending their expertise and making their cutting-edge technology available for
this challenge. This competition, which will feature almost $20 million in
prizes, will drive the creation of new technologies to rapidly improve the
security of computer code, one of cybersecurity’s most pressing challenges. It
marks the latest step by the Biden-Harris Administration to ensure the responsible
advancement of emerging technologies and protect Americans.
The Biden-Harris Administration announced AIxCC at the Black Hat USA Conference
in Las Vegas, Nevada, the nation’s largest hacking conference, which for
decades has produced many cybersecurity innovations. By finding and fixing
vulnerabilities in an automated and scalable way, AIxCC fits into this
tradition. It will demonstrate the potential benefits of AI to help secure
software used across the internet and throughout society, from the electric
grids that power America to the transportation systems that drive daily life.
DARPA will host an open competition in which the competitor that best secures
vital software will win millions of dollars in prizes. AI companies will make
their cutting-edge technology—some of the most powerful AI systems in the
world—available for competitors to use in designing new cybersecurity
solutions. To ensure broad participation and a level playing field for AIxCC,
DARPA will also make available $7 million to small businesses who want to
compete.
Teams will participate in a qualifying event in Spring 2024, where the top
scoring teams (up to 20) will be invited to participate in the semifinal
competition at DEF CON 2024, one of the world’s top cybersecurity conferences.
Of these, the top scoring teams (up to five) will receive monetary prizes and
continue to the final phase of the competition, to be held at DEF CON 2025. The
top three scoring competitors in the final competition will receive additional
monetary prizes.
The top competitors will make a meaningful difference in cybersecurity for
America and the world. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a project
of the Linux Foundation, will serve as a challenge advisor. It will also help
ensure that the winning software code is put to use right away protecting
America’s most vital software and keeping the American people safe.
Today’s announcement is part of a broader commitment by the Biden-Harris
Administration to ensure that the power of AI is harnessed to address the
nation’s great challenges, and that AI is developed safely and responsibly to
protect Americans from harm and discrimination. Last month, the Biden-Harris
Administration announced it had secured voluntary commitments from
seven leading AI companies to manage the risks posed by the technology. Earlier
this year, the Administration announced a commitment from several AI companies
to participate in an independent, public evaluation of large language models
(LLMs)—consistent with responsible disclosure principles—at DEF CON 2023. This
exercise, which starts later this week and is the first-ever public assessment
of multiple LLMs, will help advance safer, more secure and more transparent AI
development.
In addition, the Biden-Harris Administration is currently developing an
executive order and will pursue bipartisan legislation to help America lead the
way in responsible AI innovation.
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