Bank of America deploys 4,000 staff to patch AI-discovered vulnerabilities

bank of america has dedicated 4000 people, including 1000 outside contractors and 3000 internal employees, to address software vulnerabilities identified by ai models such as anthropic's mythos and openai's daybreak. the bank has already spent a few hundred million dollars in the third quarter on this initiative, combined with anti-money-laundering requirements. ceo brian moynihan expects patching costs to decrease over time. this effort makes bank of america one of the first major us companies to disclose the scale of its response to ai-discovered security threats. the move highlights the growing importance of addressing ai-identified vulnerabilities.