Where the Military's Smartest Hackers Aren't Human at All

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http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/03/where-militarys-smartest-hackers-arent-human-all/108562/

BY ALIYA STERNSTEIN
NEXTGOV
MARCH 26, 2015

Next month, unmanned computers all over the globe will face off in a dress 
rehearsal for a Las Vegas hacking tournament run by the U.S. military.

The $2 million “Cyber Grand Challenge” pits hacker-fighting software 
against malicious code programmed by Pentagon personnel. During the 2016 
finals in Vegas, the humans who built these cyberbots might as well go 
play blackjack.

At stake in the cyber challenge is a chunk of change and perhaps societal 
gratitude. That’s because the research and development gleaned during the 
two-year competition could lay the groundwork for a world where machines 
are in charge of cybersecurity.

At least, that’s the hope of many of the contestants and the Defense 
Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon component leading the 
program.

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