Disrupting malicious uses of AI

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OpenAI publishes an annual report on disrupting malicious uses of AI, detailing its efforts to prevent state-affiliated actors and other bad actors from misusing AI tools for purposes including authoritarian control, child exploitation, influence operations, and cyber attacks.

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# Disrupting malicious uses of AI Source: [https://openai.com/global-affairs/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai/](https://openai.com/global-affairs/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai/) Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity\. We advance this mission by deploying our innovations to build AI tools that help people solve really hard problems\. As we laid out in our[Economic Blueprint](https://openai.com/global-affairs/openais-economic-blueprint/)in January, we believe that making sure AI benefits the most people possible means enabling AI through common\-sense rules aimed at protecting people from actual harms, and building democratic AI\. This includes preventing use of AI tools by authoritarian regimes to amass power and control their citizens, or to threaten or coerce other states; as well as activities such as child exploitation, covert influence operations \(IOs\), scams, spam, and malicious cyber activity\. The AI\-powered investigative capabilities that flow from OpenAI’s innovations provide valuable tools to help protect democratic AI against the measures of adversarial authoritarian regimes\. It has now been a year since OpenAI became the first AI research lab to publish[reports](https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-by-state-affiliated-threat-actors/)on our disruptions in an effort to support broader efforts by U\.S\. and allied governments, industry partners, and other stakeholders, to prevent abuse by adversaries and other malicious actors\. This latest report outlines some of the trends and features of our AI\-powered work, together with case studies that highlight the types of threats we’ve disrupted\.

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