Dane Stuckey, former CISO at analytics company Palantir, joins OpenAI as its newest CISO, alongside Matt Knight, OpenAI's head of security.
Stuckey announced the move in a post on X Tuesday night.
“Security is closely tied to OpenAI’s mission,” he said. “To protect the hundreds of millions of users of our products, ensure democratic institutions can fully benefit from these technologies, and advance the development of secure AGI for the world, we must Meeting the highest standards of security is important. I'm excited about this next chapter and can't wait to help realize a future where AI benefits us all.”
Stuckey joined the information security team at Palantir in 2014 as the detection engineering and incident response leader. Prior to joining Palantir, Stuckey spent more than a decade working in a variety of digital forensics, incident detection/response, and security program development roles in the commercial, government, and intelligence communities, according to his blog.
Stuckey's work at Palantir, an AI company rich in government contracts, could perhaps help advance OpenAI's ambitions in this space. Forbes reports that OpenAI is seeking a closer relationship with the US Department of Defense through its partner, government contractor Carahsoft.
OpenAI has been working with the Department of Defense on several software projects, including those related to cybersecurity, since lifting a ban on selling AI technology to the military in January. Paul Nakasone, former head of the National Security Agency and military veteran, has also been appointed to the board.
OpenAI has been strengthening the security aspects of its operations in recent months.
A few weeks ago, the company posted a job opening for a Director of Trusted Computing and Cryptography to lead a new team focused on building a “secure AI infrastructure.” According to the description, this infrastructure will require capabilities to protect AI technologies, evaluation of security tools, and access controls that “improve the security of AI.”