Senior company officials, including two Pentagon veterans, talked about expanding cooperation with Kiev into potential military applications
Three senior OpenAI national security officials, including two former Pentagon insiders, have been duped by Russian pranksters into discussing sensitive details of the company’s AI cooperation with Ukraine, including potential military applications.
The pranksters, Vovan and Lexus, whose real names are Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, are known for impersonating officials to draw high-profile figures into private conversations. Their previous targets include Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Giorgia Meloni, and Henry Kissinger. The duo also host a podcast about their pranks.
This time, they posed as Rustem Umerov, Ukraine’s foreign intelligence chief, securing a 17-minute video call with Sasha Baker, OpenAI’s head of global national security policy and former US deputy undersecretary of defense; Caroline Zier, a former adviser to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; and Ben Crampton, the company’s national security lead for Europe.
Despite their security credentials, the officials apparently failed to detect the impersonation. Baker and Zier greeted the supposed Umerov like a familiar contact, even though his camera remained off.
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