Palantir CISO Joins OpenAI as Security Chief

Dane Stuckey, who used to be the CISO of analytics company Palantir, has joined OpenAI as its new CISO; he will work with Matt Knight, who is OpenAI’s head of security

In a post on X Tuesday evening, Stuckey told everyone about the change.

“Safety is central to OpenAI’s mission,” he said. “To protect the hundreds of millions of people who use our products, let democratic institutions get the most out of these technologies, and speed up the development of safe AGI for the world, we must meet the highest standards for compliance, trust, and security.”

From 2014 to 2016, Stuckey worked at Palantir as a lead for detection engineering and incident response on the information security team. His blog says that before joining Palantir, Stuckey worked for more than ten years in different jobs in the commercial, government, and intelligence community, doing digital forensics, incident detection and response, and developing security programs.

Stuckey’s work at Palantir, an AI company with many government contracts, might help OpenAI reach its goals in this area. Forbes says that OpenAI is trying to get closer to the U.S. Department of Defense through its partner, the government contractor Carahsoft.

Since it stopped being against the law to sell AI technology to the military in January, OpenAI has worked with the Pentagon on several software projects, some of which are linked to cybersecurity. It has also added retired Gen. Paul Nakasone, who used to be head of the National Security Agency, as a board member.

In the past few months, OpenAI has been improving the protection of its business.

A few weeks ago, the business posted a job posting for a head of trusted computing and security to lead a new group building “secure AI infrastructure.” The description says this infrastructure would include ways to keep AI technology safe, reviews of security tools, and access rules “that improve AI security.”