---
type: "Evidence Item"
title: "Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program"
description: "OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty program to identify AI abuse and safety risks, including agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration."
resource: "https://openai.com/index/safety-bug-bounty"
tags: ["appendix-iii", "vendor", "openai"]
timestamp: "2026-03-25"
category: "vendor"
publisher: "OpenAI"
cope_score: 46
confidence: 0.9
---

# Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program

# Claim

OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty program to identify AI abuse and safety risks, including agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration.

# Relevance

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

# Oracle Verdict

This is a low-signal vendor radar item. Keep it as context only unless a later benchmark, deployment, procurement change, or labour-market datapoint turns it into direct Appendix III evidence.

# Metadata

* Publisher: OpenAI
* Category: vendor
* Sector: General AI capability
* Capability: Vendor platform capability signal
* Cope score: 46
* Confidence: 0.9

# Related Concepts

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

# Citations

[1] [Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program](https://openai.com/index/safety-bug-bounty)