Security on the path to AGI
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OpenAI updates its Cybersecurity Grant Program and Security Bug Bounty Program to advance security excellence on its path to AGI
Action Steps
- Apply for the Cybersecurity Grant Program to fund innovative security projects
- Participate in the Security Bug Bounty Program to identify vulnerabilities in OpenAI's infrastructure and products
- Collaborate with OpenAI on open-source security research to leverage the latest thinking and share findings
- Submit proposals for microgrants to quickly prototype innovative cybersecurity ideas and experiments
Who Needs to Know This
Security researchers, AI engineers, and cybersecurity professionals on a team can benefit from OpenAI's grant program and bug bounty initiatives to enhance security in AI systems
Key Insight
💡 OpenAI is prioritizing security excellence through its Cybersecurity Grant Program, Security Bug Bounty Program, and open-source security research collaborations
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OpenAI updates its Cybersecurity Grant Program and Security Bug Bounty Program to advance security excellence on its path to AGI
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* [Strengthening security in a dynamic landscape](https://openai.com/index/security-on-the-path-to-agi#strengthening-security-in-a-dynamic-landscape)
* [Looking ahead](https://openai.com/index/security-on-the-path-to-agi#looking-ahead)
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# Security on the Path to AGI
Updates on OpenAI’s Cybersecurity Grant Program, Bug Bounties and Security Initiatives
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We’re sharing developments that reflect our progress, momentum and forward-looking commitment to security excellence on our ambitious path toward AGI.
**Evolving our Cybersecurity Grant Program**Since [launching the Cybersecurity Grant Program two years ago](https://openai.com/index/openai-cybersecurity-grant-program/), we've reviewed over a thousand applications and funded 28 research initiatives, gaining critical insights into areas like prompt injection, secure code generation and autonomous cybersecurity defenses.
We're continuing to fund bold, innovative projects aimed at advancing the sciences of AI and cybersecurity.
The Cybersecurity Grant Program is now soliciting proposals for a wider range of projects. Priority focus areas for new grant applications include:
* **Software patching**: Leveraging AI to detect and patch vulnerabilities.
* **Model privacy**: Enhancing robustness against unintended exposure of private training data.
* **Detection and response**: Improving detection and response capabilities against advanced persistent threats.
* **Security integration**: Boosting accuracy and reliability of AI integration with security tools.
* **Agentic security**: Increasing resilience in AI agents against sophisticated attacks.
We are also introducing microgrants for high quality proposals. These are API credits provided to researchers for quickly prototyping innovative cybersecurity ideas and experiments.
If you are interested in participating, we invite you to [submit a proposal here](https://openai.com/form/cybersecurity-grant-program/).
_Open-source security research_ In addition to the Cybersecurity Grant Program, we are engaging researchers and practitioners throughout the cybersecurity community. This allows us to leverage the latest thinking and share our findings with those working toward a more secure digital world. To train our models, we partner with experts across academic, government, and commercial labs to benchmark skills gaps and obtain structured examples of advanced reasoning across cybersecurity domains. Collaboration has yielded impressive results on topics such as code security, an area where we intend to be industry leading with our model’s ability to find and patch vulnerabilities in code. We’ve internally demonstrated state of the art capability in this area with industry leading scores on public benchmarks, have found vulnerabilities in open source software code, and will be releasing security disclosures to relevant open source parties as we identify them and scale.
**Expanding our Security Bug Bounty Program**Our [Security Bug Bounty Program](https://openai.com/index/bug-bounty-program/) rewards security researchers for responsibly identifying vulnerabilities and threats within our infrastructure and products. We are making program enhancements
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* [Strengthening security in a dynamic landscape](https://openai.com/index/security-on-the-path-to-agi#strengthening-security-in-a-dynamic-landscape)
* [Looking ahead](https://openai.com/index/security-on-the-path-to-agi#looking-ahead)
March 26, 2025
[Security](https://openai.com/news/security/)
# Security on the Path to AGI
Updates on OpenAI’s Cybersecurity Grant Program, Bug Bounties and Security Initiatives
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We’re sharing developments that reflect our progress, momentum and forward-looking commitment to security excellence on our ambitious path toward AGI.
**Evolving our Cybersecurity Grant Program**Since [launching the Cybersecurity Grant Program two years ago](https://openai.com/index/openai-cybersecurity-grant-program/), we've reviewed over a thousand applications and funded 28 research initiatives, gaining critical insights into areas like prompt injection, secure code generation and autonomous cybersecurity defenses.
We're continuing to fund bold, innovative projects aimed at advancing the sciences of AI and cybersecurity.
The Cybersecurity Grant Program is now soliciting proposals for a wider range of projects. Priority focus areas for new grant applications include:
* **Software patching**: Leveraging AI to detect and patch vulnerabilities.
* **Model privacy**: Enhancing robustness against unintended exposure of private training data.
* **Detection and response**: Improving detection and response capabilities against advanced persistent threats.
* **Security integration**: Boosting accuracy and reliability of AI integration with security tools.
* **Agentic security**: Increasing resilience in AI agents against sophisticated attacks.
We are also introducing microgrants for high quality proposals. These are API credits provided to researchers for quickly prototyping innovative cybersecurity ideas and experiments.
If you are interested in participating, we invite you to [submit a proposal here](https://openai.com/form/cybersecurity-grant-program/).
_Open-source security research_ In addition to the Cybersecurity Grant Program, we are engaging researchers and practitioners throughout the cybersecurity community. This allows us to leverage the latest thinking and share our findings with those working toward a more secure digital world. To train our models, we partner with experts across academic, government, and commercial labs to benchmark skills gaps and obtain structured examples of advanced reasoning across cybersecurity domains. Collaboration has yielded impressive results on topics such as code security, an area where we intend to be industry leading with our model’s ability to find and patch vulnerabilities in code. We’ve internally demonstrated state of the art capability in this area with industry leading scores on public benchmarks, have found vulnerabilities in open source software code, and will be releasing security disclosures to relevant open source parties as we identify them and scale.
**Expanding our Security Bug Bounty Program**Our [Security Bug Bounty Program](https://openai.com/index/bug-bounty-program/) rewards security researchers for responsibly identifying vulnerabilities and threats within our infrastructure and products. We are making program enhancements
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