---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT"
description: "Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-02-13"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 64
confidence: 0.9
---

# Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT

# Claim

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.

# Relevance

Appendix III, section two: vendor threshold and platform capability evidence

# Oracle Verdict

This is a lower-to-mid strength vendor signal for the capability register. It does not prove displacement on its own, but it records another platform step that can later show up as workflow automation, procurement change, or organisational dependency.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: General AI capability
* Capability: Vendor platform capability signal
* Cope score: 64
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

* [Live evidence index](index.md)
* [Thesis](../thesis.md)

# Citations

[1] [Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT](https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt)