The UK government commits an initial £40M to establish an AI research lab, modeled on ARIA, seeking breakthroughs in science, health care, and transportation
An interview with Trent Brunson, R&D director at cybersecurity firm Trail of Bits, which won $3M and second in DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge, behind Team Atlanta
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A look at DARPA's “Exponentiating Mathematics” program, which aims to speed up progress in pure mathematics by developing an AI “co-author” to conduct research
Breakthroughs in pure mathematics can take decades. A new Defense Department initiative aims to speed things up using artificial intelligence.
A look at AIxCC, or AI Cyber Challenge, a competition launched in 2023 and run by DARPA to design an AI program that scans open source code for security flaws
A look at AIxCC, or AI Cyber Challenge, a competition launched in 2023 and run by DARPA to design an AI program that scans open source code for security flaws
Computer scientists brainstorm in Pentagon-backed competition to design an AI program that scans open-source code for flaws bad actors could exploit Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange . Bluesky: @...
Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more
Arati Prabhakar has the ear of the US president and a massive mission: help manage AI, revive the semiconductor industry, and pull off a cancer moonshot.
DARPA reveals that an AI-controlled X-62A jet successfully faced a human pilot in an F-16 during an in-air dogfight test carried out in 2023
https://www.theverge.com/... LinkedIn: Gordon McCulloh : Leading this project from the student vantage last year was an absolute privilege. The technical achievements of the various teams involved … ...
The US National Science Foundation partners with OpenAI, Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and others to launch NAIRR, a pilot to expand researchers' access to AI tools
combining the best of safety, privacy, & use! We're hiring!!! https://openmined.org/... @whostp : Today, @NSF launched the National AI Research Resource pilot. Giving researchers, educators, and stude...
Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors
[images] Abraham Samma / @abesamma@toolsforthought.social : Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training — This is some sci-fi stuff right here (even if unsurprising)...