OpenAI has released a comprehensive statement complete with case studies titled “Disrupting Malicious Use of AI” in which they detail their efforts to combat the growing use of their own AI tools to perpetrate activity that is against the best interest of humanity, such as: covert influence operations, child exploitation, scams, spam, and malicious cyber activity.
Generative Artificial Intelligence tools such as the now-ubiquitous ChatGPT are force multipliers for both sides of the battle in writing code, producing malware for cybercrime campaigns, and breaking down language barriers for phishing campaign authors, but also for detection and enhancement of tools for security analysts and threat hunters.
In the statement, released June 6, OpenAI included multiple case studies detailing use of AI in malicious campaigns. Their executive summary opens with:
“Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity” and “[the effort] includes using AI to defend against such abuses. By using AI as a force multiplier for our expert investigative teams, in the three months since our last report we’ve been able to detect, disrupt and expose abusive activity including social engineering, cyber espionage, deceptive employment schemes, covert influence operations and scams.”
The statement also included their finding that 4 in 10 of the cases they profiled originated in China.
