Disrupting deceptive uses of AI by covert influence operations

Deceptive Employment Scheme: IT worker activity

OpenAI banned accounts associated with suspected deceptive employment campaigns that used AI to develop materials for potentially fraudulent remote-job applications.

Disrupting malicious uses of AI

Operation “VAGue Focus”: Social engineering and influence activity

OpenAI banned accounts using AI for social engineering, surveillance-themed research, and influence activity targeting critics.

Deceptive Employment Scheme: AI-assisted hiring deception

OpenAI banned accounts potentially used to facilitate a deceptive employment scheme with characteristics of publicly reported North Korea-linked IT-worker activity.

Covert influence operation: Ghana election activity

OpenAI banned accounts using AI to generate articles, posts, and fake engagement around Ghana’s 2024 presidential election.

Disrupting malicious uses of AI: June 2025

Our latest report featuring case studies of how we’re detecting and preventing malicious uses of AI.

Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors

Disrupting malicious uses of AI | February 2026

Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

Cyber threat actors: AI-assisted intrusion research

OpenAI banned accounts potentially associated with publicly reported DPRK-affiliated threat actors using AI to research intrusion tooling, phishing, malware, and cryptocurrency targeting.

Operation “Stop News”: Recidivist influence activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to a Russia-origin operation we dubbed “Stop News”, using AI to generate recidivist influence content targeting Africa and the UK.

Preparing for malicious uses of AI

We’ve co-authored a paper that forecasts how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, and potential ways we can prevent and mitigate these threats. This paper is the outcome of almost a year of sustained work with our colleagues at the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Center for a New American Security, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.

AI Snitches Get Glitches: Towards Evading Agentic Surveillance

To better assist users with completing challenging tasks, AI agents mediate communications, access data, and interact with different APIs. Many employers (and even nation-states) already provide their users with this technology.