Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI | OpenAI Threat Report February 2026
OpenAI published its latest threat report examining how malicious actors are combining AI models with websites and social platforms for harmful purposes. The report analyzes detection and defense implications of these combined attack vectors. This represents OpenAI's ongoing effort to document and counter adversarial misuse of AI systems.
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Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI: OpenAI June 2025 Report
OpenAI published its June 2025 report on detecting and preventing malicious uses of its AI systems. The report features case studies of threat actors attempting to abuse OpenAI's models and the countermeasures deployed. This is part of OpenAI's ongoing transparency series on adversarial misuse.
Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI
OpenAI published a report on its efforts to detect and disrupt malicious uses of its AI systems. The post covers threat actor activity identified and terminated on OpenAI's platform, including influence operations, cyberattack assistance, and other adversarial uses. It represents OpenAI's ongoing transparency reporting on abuse cases and countermeasures.
Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI: OpenAI October 2025 Report
OpenAI published its October 2025 report on detecting and disrupting malicious uses of its AI systems. The report covers enforcement actions, policy violations, and efforts to counter real-world harms from misuse. This is part of OpenAI's ongoing transparency series documenting adversarial abuse patterns and mitigation responses.
Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors
OpenAI published a report detailing its efforts to detect and disrupt state-affiliated threat actors attempting to misuse its AI systems for malicious purposes. The report identifies specific nation-state groups that were found leveraging OpenAI tools for activities such as influence operations, cyberattack research, and other adversarial tasks. OpenAI describes the countermeasures taken to terminate these actors' access and outlines broader policy implications for AI misuse by state actors.
Preparing for malicious uses of AI
OpenAI co-authored a multi-institutional paper forecasting how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, produced in collaboration with FHI, CSER, CNAS, EFF, and others over nearly a year. The paper outlines potential threat vectors and proposes prevention and mitigation strategies. This represents an early coordinated effort among AI safety and policy organizations to systematically address AI misuse risks.
Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations
OpenAI reports terminating accounts associated with covert influence operations that attempted to misuse its AI services for deceptive purposes. The company found no evidence that these operations achieved significant audience growth attributable to its tools. This represents an ongoing enforcement and transparency effort by OpenAI to counter adversarial misuse of generative AI for information operations.
Strengthening cyber resilience as AI capabilities advance
OpenAI published a post outlining its approach to cybersecurity risk as its models grow more capable, covering risk assessment frameworks, misuse mitigation, and collaboration with the security community. The piece addresses both offensive risk (AI-enabled attacks) and defensive applications. It represents OpenAI's public positioning on responsible deployment in a high-stakes domain.
OpenAI report: PRC-linked influence operations targeting U.S. AI debates
OpenAI published a report documenting PRC-linked influence operations that use AI to target U.S. technology policy debates, including narratives around data centers, tariffs, and false claims about ChatGPT. The report identifies a pattern of coordinated inauthentic behavior aimed at shaping American discourse on AI. This is notable both as a safety/threat-intelligence disclosure and as evidence of AI being weaponized in geopolitical information operations.