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GPT-5 bio bug bounty call

OpenAI just opened GPT-5 to adversarial testing. Here's what that tells you about their safety confidence.

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Why it matters

OpenAI is crowdsourcing safety validation for GPT-5 ahead of broader deployment, signaling both transparency and lingering concerns about biological misuse risks. This is a watershed moment for how frontier labs handle pre-release safety governance.

The key facts

6 to know
  1. GPT-5 bio-focused bug bounty program launched

  2. Up to $25,000 per valid vulnerability discovery

  3. Universal jailbreak prompts explicitly in scope

  4. Researchers invited to test safety guardrails

  5. Biological harm vector identified as priority risk area

  6. Public program indicates confidence in model robustness but acknowledgment of residual risk

Go to the source

OpenAI Blogopenai.com

Publisher excerpt: OpenAI invites researchers to its Bio Bug Bounty. Test GPT-5’s safety with a universal jailbreak prompt and win up to $25,000.
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