WNDP-Defense: Weapons of Mass Disruption
Esben Kran, Tristan Williams, Bart Bussmann · Team DefAInce
Submitted to AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks. Sprint projects are early-stage work by participants, not Apart Research publications.
Highly disruptive cyber warfare is a significant threat to democracies. In this work, we introduce an extension to the WMDP benchmark to measure the offense/defense balance in autonomous cyber capabilities and develop forecasts for cyber AI capability with agent-based and parametric modeling.

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@misc{kran2024wndpdefense,
title = {{WNDP-Defense: Weapons of Mass Disruption}},
author = {Esben Kran and Tristan Williams and Bart Bussmann},
year = {2024},
month = may,
note = {Submitted to AI and Democracy Hackathon: Demonstrating the Risks, an Apart Research Sprint},
howpublished = {\url{https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/wndp-defense-weapons-of-mass-disruption}},
url = {https://apartresearch.com/sprints/projects/wndp-defense-weapons-of-mass-disruption}
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