OpenAI unveiled its Bug Bounty Program, which offers bounties from $200 to $20,000. It invites people to find any vulnerabilities, bugs, or security flaws in its systems, like ChatGPT and GPT-4, and pays rewards in exchange. To manage the submission and rewards process, OpenAI partnered with Bugcrowd, a security research platform. Seven vulnerabilities have been rewarded so far. OpenAI believes that transparency and collaboration are essential to the safety of AI technology, which is why they launched the Bug Bounty Program.
OpenAI is an AI research and development lab, founded by Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and others in late 2015. The company’s mission is to ensure that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) advances safety and benefits humanity, while keeping AGI capabilities out of online control or stolen. OpenAI has made a huge impact in the AI industry, having developed such programs as the chatbot ChatGPT, the language model GPT-4, and the robot hand Dactyl.
Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder at OpenAI, announced the launch of the Bug Bounty Program in a tweet last month. He has also been vocal about the need to keep up with the ethical considerations that AI technology brings, including the risk of personal data being misused. With the Bug Bounty Program, OpenAI hopes to encourage researchers to detect and report any security problems quickly, so better safety measures can be established.
