Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: OpenAI commits $1 billion to cyberdefense effort amid AI safety scrutinyOpenAI is introducing Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, a new global initiative to help frontline defenders use frontier AI cyber capabilities to protect essential services in the U.S. and around the world.
The priority list names water and wastewater systems, electricity grid operators, state and local governments, community and regional banks, nonprofits and open-source maintainers. Crypto exchanges, custodians and blockchain protocols are not mentioned anywhere in the announcement.
Open-source blockchain and crypto software, however, fits that category. Bitcoin Core, Ethereum clients, and the libraries DeFi protocols depend on are maintained by small teams and unpaid volunteers who guard code that secures billions of dollars."Our goal is to use frontier AI to make the systems Americans depend on harder to attack and easier to repair," — OpenAI said.
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