Bank of America hires 1,000 contractors to fix vulnerabilities found by AI scanning
aigclink · x · 2026-10-15
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan disclosed that to address software security risks exposed by frontier AI models including Mythos, the bank hired an additional 1,000 contractors in Q2 to help fix vulnerabilities in internal code and third-party vendor software. They join an existing team of 3,000.
The bank is also running roughly 130 internal AI projects, with expected savings growing from $300M in 2026 to about $700M in 2027.
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