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OpenAI doubles Bio Bug Bounty rewards to $50K for AI safety research

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OpenAI is enhancing its Bio Bug Bounty program, rebranding it as the OpenAI Bio Bug Bounty program and increasing the reward to $50,000. The initiative aims to bolster safety measures for advanced AI in biological applications. Researchers are encouraged to participate in red teaming efforts to identify potential vulnerabilities, specifically seeking a universal jailbreak that can overcome the predefined biosafety challenges for OpenAI's frontier models. AI

IMPACT Enhances AI safety research by incentivizing the discovery of vulnerabilities in biological AI applications.

RANK_REASON This is an update to an existing program, not a new frontier model release or significant policy change.

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OpenAI doubles Bio Bug Bounty rewards to $50K for AI safety research

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  1. X — OpenAI TIER_1 English(EN) · OpenAI ·

    As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology, we’re evolving our Bio Bug Bounty into an ongoing private p

    As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology, we’re evolving our Bio Bug Bounty into an ongoing private program, known as the OpenAI Bio Bug Bounty program and doubling rewards to $50K. We’re inviting researchers with

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