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GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

OpenAI puts $25K bounties on GPT-5.5 bio jailbreaks. Red-teaming for safety is now the competitive moat.

Reporting by OpenAI Blog 1 min brief
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Why it matters

OpenAI is crowdsourcing adversarial testing for biosafety risks in its latest model, signaling that safety governance and public bug bounties are becoming standard practice for frontier AI releases. This reflects broader industry pressure to demonstrate responsible capability deployment.

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5 to know

  1. GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty launched

  2. Reward structure: up to $25,000 per vulnerability

  3. Focus: universal jailbreaks and bio safety risks

  4. Red-teaming challenge format

  5. Published April 23, 2026

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Publisher excerpt: Explore the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty: a red-teaming challenge to find universal jailbreaks for bio safety risks, with rewards up to $25,000.
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