US Launches AI Competition to Protect Computer Systems

2023-08-14

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  • The United States has launched a competition for developing artificial intelligence (AI) to find and fix security issues in U.S. government infrastructure.
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  • Anne Neuberger is the U.S. government's deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology.
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  • She told Reuters news agency, "Cybersecurity is a race between offense and defense."
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  • She said bad actors are already using AI to identify weaknesses in systems and to build malicious software.
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  • A number of U.S. organizations, in healthcare, manufacturing and government, have been targets of hacking in recent years.
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  • Officials have warned about such threats, especially from foreign actors.
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  • Canada's cybersecurity chief Sami Khoury made similar comments last month.
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  • He said his agency had seen AI being used for everything from creating phishing emails and writing malicious computer code to spreading disinformation.
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  • The White House said the two-year competition includes around $20 million in awards.
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  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will lead the competition.
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  • DARPA is the U.S. government body in charge of creating technologies for national security.
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  • The technology companies Google, Anthropic, Microsoft, and OpenAI will make their systems available for the competition, the government said.
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  • The event signals official attempts to deal with an emerging threat that experts are still trying to fully understand.
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  • In the past year, U.S. businesses have launched a number of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT.
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  • These tools permit users to create videos, images, texts, and computer code.
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  • Chinese companies have launched similar tools.
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  • Experts say such tools could make it far easier to carry out large hacking campaigns or create false identities on social media to spread lies and propaganda.
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  • Neuberger said the goal of the DARPA AI competition is to build a larger community of cyber defenders who use AI to help increase America's cyber defenses.
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  • The Open Source Security Foundation, a group of experts trying to improve open source software security, will also be involved in the competition.
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  • It will make sure the "winning software code is put to use right away," the U.S. government said.
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  • I'm John Russell.