DARPA and ARPA-H ran each submission through various open-source coding projects with injected vulnerabilities, scoring the tools based on their ability to identify and remediate security flaws. Operators conducted challenges in a sandboxed environment, unreal in the wild, finding 22 vulnerabilities with 15 automatically patched.
DARPA plays a unique role in developing AI tools for cybersecurity due to its freedom from financial constraints that tech companies face. Kathleen Fisher highlighted that DARPA can experiment and invest in research without worrying about financial repercussions like private entities.
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