GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Quick Answer
OpenAI has launched the ongoing Bio Bounty Program, enhancing the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty with increased rewards for universal jailbreaks, now offering $50,000.
Quick Take
OpenAI has launched the ongoing Bio Bounty Program, enhancing the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty with increased rewards for universal jailbreaks, now offering $50,000. The program will focus on biosafety challenges against models starting from GPT-5.6, with testing for GPT-5.5 concluding on July 27, 2026.
Key Points
- The Bio Bounty Program rewards universal jailbreaks with $50,000 for GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6.
- Testing for GPT-5.5 will conclude on July 27, 2026, after which only GPT-5.6 will be in scope.
- Partial wins may receive smaller awards at OpenAI's discretion.
- Applicants must have ChatGPT accounts and will sign an NDA to participate.
- The program aims to enhance safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology.
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Invitation
As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen our safeguards for advanced AI capabilities in biology, we’re evolving our GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty to become an ongoing private program—the OpenAI Bio Bounty Program. The program will remain focused on universal jailbreaks that can defeat our predefined biosafety challenge against OpenAI’s frontier models, starting with GPT‑5.6 and going forward.
We’re also excited to announce that we’re increasing reward amounts. The reward for a universal jailbreak for the OpenAI Bio Bounty Program has been raised from $25,000 to $50,000 for both GPT‑5.6 and GPT‑5.5. Smaller awards may be granted for partial wins at our discretion.
We will continue to honor the scope for the GPT‑5.5 Bio Bounty Program as originally announced, with testing ending on July 27, 2026. After this date, only GPT‑5.6 will be in scope; we will continue to communicate any future changes in scope to our researchers.
Interested applicants should apply through our rolling application process(opens in a new window). Once selected, accepted applicants will be onboarded to the bio bug bounty platform. All past applicants to the GPT‑5.5 Bio Bounty Program will not need to reapply.
How to participate
Submit a short application here(opens in a new window) (name, affiliation, experience). Accepted applicants must have existing ChatGPT accounts to apply, and will sign a NDA. Apply now and help us make frontier AI safer.
— Originally published at openai.com
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