Supporting competitors for DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge

One of nan clearest benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) is nan imaginable to heighten cybersecurity for organizations and net users astir nan world. This is particularly existent arsenic bad actors proceed to target and utilization captious package and systems. Advances successful AI will reshape these dynamics, and responsibly applying AI could thief return nan manufacture toward a much unafraid architecture for nan integer world.

Experience besides tells america that getting location requires beardown collaborations betwixt nan nationalist and backstage sector, arsenic good arsenic opportunities for invention for illustration DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) Semifinal Competition arena astatine DEF CON 32 successful Las Vegas from August 8-11. The two-year situation brings together AI and cybersecurity researchers to build caller AI devices to thief unafraid awesome open-source projects.

This is nan inaugural title of nan situation which DARPA announced astatine past year’s Black Hat. The Semifinal Competition comes connected nan heels of nan day of nan White House’s voluntary AI commitments – wherever manufacture and authorities came together to work together to beforehand responsible practices successful nan improvement and usage of AI. Today, we’re sharing really Google is supporting AIxCC competitors on nan way:

• Google Cloud resources: To group up competitors for success, Google is providing$5,000 successful Google Cloud credits for each qualifying AIxCC team, up to $1 cardinal successful total. Participants tin usage nan credits for eligible Google Cloud services, including Gemini. This intends competitors will person entree to Google Cloud AI and instrumentality learning models, which they tin usage and build upon for various tasks during nan challenge. We besides promote participants to return advantage of our inducement programs, for illustration nan Google for Startups Program, which covers Google Cloud costs up to $350,000 for AI startups.
• Cybersecurity experts: Google has been pioneering utilizing AI for information for years, whether for precocious threat discovery aliases protecting Gmail users from phishing. We’ve seen nan imaginable of AI for information and look guardant to sharing what we’ve learned pinch AIxCC by making our information experts disposable passim nan challenge. Google information experts will beryllium capable to supply proposal connected projects and infrastructure, and thief create nan baseline for evaluating participants. To footwear things off, we published a guide connected really AI tin heighten Google's unfastened root OSS-Fuzz technology, which specifically shares recommended approaches to AIxCC.
• AIxCC acquisition astatine DEF CON: Next week, we'll beryllium astatine nan AIxCC Semifinal Experience astatine DEF CON pinch an AI-focused hacker demo and hands-on demos to showcase Google's AI technology. We will besides person Chromebooks astatine nan Google booth to demo our AI exertion including Google Security Operations and SecLM. Google information experts will beryllium connected manus to stock knowledge and participate successful method discussions pinch attendees.

AI Village astatine DEF CON 32

In summation to our activity pinch nan AIxCC, Google will proceed to support nan AI Village astatine DEF CON, which educates participants connected information and privateness issues astir AI. This year, Google donated $10,000 to nan Village and will beryllium providing Pixelbooks for shop attendees to get hands-on acquisition astatine nan intersection of AI and cybersecurity. The AI Village is returning aft past year’s successful AI Village reddish teaming event, which Google took portion successful and wherever information professionals worked connected AI information challenges.

We look guardant to seeing nan caller innovations that stem from nan AIxCC Semifinal Competition, and sharing really they tin beryllium applied to unafraid nan package we each trust on. In nan meantime, you tin study much astir our AI information activity via nan Secure AI Framework and nan precocious announced Coalition for Secure AI.