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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/openai-heralds-cybersecurity-election-interference-safeguard-plans-for-2026-midterms-2.jpg?resize=1469,843 1469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1176px) 100vw, 1176px\"><figcaption> wildpixel, iStock\/Getty Images Plus <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"24.708403361345\"><body readability=\"52.529809220986\"><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI on Wednesday hailed its plans to safeguard information and aid cybersecurity defenders in the 2026 midterm elections, including work to combat deepfakes and other forms of artificial intelligence misuse. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/election-safeguards-2026\/\">The announcement<\/a> builds on commitments from major tech companies <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/tech-platforms-ai-elections-misinformation-disinformation\/\">in 2024<\/a>, including OpenAI, to protect elections from AI-infused election interference \u2014 efforts that <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/tech-platforms-ai-elections-misinformation-disinformation\/\">some thought<\/a> weren\u2019t enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eac.gov\/AI\">Government agencies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/series\/ai-and-elections\">non-governmental institutes<\/a> and others have increasingly warned about AI\u2019s ability to have a negative impact on elections even as they advertise its potential for good.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI\u2019s plan has five planks: spreading reliable information about voting and election results, helping with cybersecurity, watermarking deepfakes, enforcing policies that ban users from deploying its tools for election interference, and weeding out political bias in its models.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI highlighted that it has made its <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/openai-daybreak-gpt-5-5-anthropic-mythos-cybersecurity\/\">Codex Security agentic framework<\/a> and Trusted Access for Cyber framework available to election officials, and was briefing the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors on its tools.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important moment for cyber defenders across industries, and we believe AI plays a critical role in hardening digital infrastructure \u2014 including systems that support elections,\u201d the company said. \u201cOpenAI is committed to building resilience across the infrastructure stack, including in ways that support election execution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some elements of OpenAI\u2019s plans aren\u2019t new so much as it\u2019s taking pieces from other announcements and putting them together in one, such as reiterating last week\u2019s partnership with SynthID to add watermarks to images generated with ChatGPT to assist in evaluating whether something is real or a deepfake.<\/p>\n<p>One new element of Wednesday\u2019s announcement is that OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Associated Press on sharing election data.<\/p>\n<p>One election security expert welcomed the OpenAI announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the prevalence and amplification of disinformation about our elections, sometimes coming from leaders in high office, it\u2019s always a good thing when platforms and services embrace their obligation to deliver accurate information to users,\u201d David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, told CyberScoop. \u201cIt appears OpenAI is doing that with this announcement. 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