Company CEO Sam Altman was in North Carolina yesterday, where he highlighted how OpenAI is partnering with cyber defenders to protect systems and services North Carolinians rely on. Last week, OpenAI led a coalition of now more than 150 organizations across cybersecurity, technology, critical infrastructure, finance, and AI in a call for collective action to close the cyber-defense gap, warning that there is a narrowing opportunity to use AI to close security gaps before attackers seize them.
“If there is a hole, if there are these small vulnerabilities, the barrier to chain them together has just come down tremendously,” Brockman said. “The places where you used to be able to relax on your best practices — that’s just not going to cut it anymore.”
Earlier this month, following attacks on US water systems, OpenAI offered affected states and utilities up to $1 million in no-cost API credits, Daybreak access, and technical assistance. OpenAI said teams used that support to review code and system configurations, validate findings, develop patches, and confirm fixes without disrupting essential services.
