Dane Stuckey, the previous CISO of analytics agency Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its latest CISO, serving alongside OpenAI head of safety Matt Knight.
Stuckey introduced the transfer in a submit on X Tuesday night.
“Security is germane to OpenAI’s mission,” he mentioned. “It is critical we meet the highest standards for compliance, trust, and security to protect hundreds of millions of users of our products, enable democratic institutions to maximally benefit from these technologies, and drive the development of safe AGI for the world. I am so excited for this next chapter, and can’t wait to help secure a future where AI benefits us all.”
Stuckey began at Palantir in 2014 on the data safety staff as a detection engineering and incident response lead. Prior to becoming a member of Palantir, Stuckey spent over a decade in varied business, authorities, and intelligence group digital forensics, incident detection/response, and safety program improvement roles, based on his weblog.
Stuckey’s work at Palantir, an AI firm wealthy in authorities contracts, may maybe assist advance OpenAI’s ambitions on this space. Forbes experiences that, by way of its accomplice Carahsoft, a authorities contractor, OpenAI is looking for to ascertain a more in-depth relationship with the U.S. Department of Defense.
Since it lifted its ban on promoting AI tech to the navy in January, OpenAI has labored with the Pentagon on a number of software program tasks, together with ones associated to cybersecurity. It’s additionally appointed former head of the National Security Agency, retired Gen. Paul Nakasone, as a board member.
OpenAI has been beefing up the safety facet of its operation in current months.
Several weeks in the past, the corporate posted a job itemizing for a head of trusted compute and cryptography to guide a brand new staff targeted on constructing “secure AI infrastructure.” This infrastructure would entail capabilities to guard AI tech, safety device evaluations, and entry controls “that advance AI security,” per the outline.
