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Bank of America hires 1,000 contractors to fix AI-exposed software flaws

Original: Bank of America has deployed about 1,000 outside contractors to fix software weaknesses exposed by AI models, including

Bank of America has deployed roughly 1,000 outside contractors to remediate software weaknesses uncovered by AI models, including one from Anthropic. The clean-up has reportedly cost the bank a couple hundred million dollars, on top of around 3,000 internal staff already assigned to the same remediation work. The story is drawing attention as one of the clearest examples yet of the real security and maintenance costs companies face when AI tools probe their systems.

Why now: It highlights the unexpected and expensive consequences of using powerful AI models on corporate software.

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• Bank of America has deployed about 1,000 outside contractors to fix software weaknesses exposed by AI models, including Anthropic's Mythos. The remediation work cost the bank a couple hundred million USD. Around 3,000 internal staff were already assigned to the same task.… · startups@vivaldi.net · 1

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