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White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, darpa, infrastructure, Security technology, Uncategorized

At Black Hat last week, the White House announced an AI Cyber Challenge. Gizmodo reports: The new AI cyber challenge (which is being abbreviated “AIxCC”) 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 … Read More “White House Announces AI Cybersecurity Challenge” »

Detecting “Violations of Social Norms” in Text with AI

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academic papers, artificial intelligence, darpa, Internet and society, Security technology, Uncategorized

Researchers are trying to use AI to detect “social norms violations.” Feels a little sketchy right now, but this is the sort of thing that AIs will get better at. (Like all of these systems, anything but a very low false positive rate makes the detection useless in practice.) News article. Powered by WPeMatico

AIs as Computer Hackers

Posted on By infossl
artificial intelligence, china, darpa, essays, hacking, robotics, Security technology, Uncategorized

Hacker “Capture the Flag” has been a mainstay at hacker gatherings since the mid-1990s. It’s like the outdoor game, but played on computer networks. Teams of hackers defend their own computers while attacking other teams’. It’s a controlled setting for what computer hackers do in real life: finding and fixing vulnerabilities in their own systems … Read More “AIs as Computer Hackers” »

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System

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darpa, hardware, opensource, Security technology, voting

This sounds like a good development: …a new $10 million contract the Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an Oregon-based firm called Galois, a longtime government contractor with … Read More “DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System” »