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title: "What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-50-open-source-projects-taught-us-about-security-in-the-ai-era-q08qpvy5d
source_url: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/what-50-open-source-projects-taught-us-about-security-in-the-ai-era
type: article
source: "GitHub Blog"
published: 2026-08-13T16:02:59.214Z
updated: 2026-08-17T19:19:20.939Z
tags: ["security", "open-source", "github", "appsec"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era

**[GitHub Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ghblog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund invested over $500,000 across 50 open source projects in its fourth session, pairing maintainers with GitHub Security Lab experts, security tooling, AI-assisted workflows, and funding to strengthen project security. Projects like OpenClaw, LangChain, FastAPI, and htmx developed incident response plans, audited CI/CD workflows, and explored AI tools like GitHub Copilot for vulnerability triage and threat modeling. The program runs three-week sprints over 12 months, providing $10,000 per project plus Azure credits and ongoing security office hours. A recurring theme was that AI accelerates investigation and response, but maintainers remain accountable for what ships. Applications for Session 5 close August 24.

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