About the Talk:

Join the OpenAI Forum for a conversation with members of OpenAI's Intelligence and Investigations (I2) team about their latest report on PRC-linked influence operations targeting AI debates in the U.S.

The discussion will unpack findings from OpenAI's June 2026 Threat Report, including two clusters of accounts that used ChatGPT to generate social media content about data center buildouts, tariffs, and U.S.-China technology competition. Speakers will also explain how OpenAI’s I2 team detects and disrupts coordinated misuse of AI beyond this report.

About the speakers:

Albert Zhang is a member of OpenAI’s Intelligence & Investigations Staff. He focuses on identifying and disrupting the misuse of artificial intelligence by threats actors in the PRC. Before joining OpenAI, Albert was an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute where he led influential research on the national security implications of emerging technology.

Ben Nimmo is Principal Investigator on OpenAI’s Intelligence and Investigations team. He was a co-founder of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab), and later served as Graphika’s first head of investigations, and as global lead of threat intelligence at Meta. He has helped to expose foreign election interference in the United States, United Kingdom and France; documented troll operations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas; and been declared dead by an army of Twitter bots. A graduate of Cambridge University, he speaks French, German, Russian, and Latvian, among other languages.