diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-articles.yml b/.github/workflows/check-articles.yml
index 02338e3..3d17cbb 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-articles.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-articles.yml
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ jobs:
         CODA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODA_TOKEN }}
         AIRTABLE_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.AIRTABLE_API_KEY }}
         YOUTUBE_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.YOUTUBE_API_KEY }}
+        OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
         ARD_DB_USER: ${{ secrets.ARD_DB_USER }}
         ARD_DB_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.ARD_DB_PASSWORD }}
         ARD_DB_HOST: ${{ secrets.ARD_DB_HOST }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/fetch-dataset.yml b/.github/workflows/fetch-dataset.yml
index 80fcb58..7731097 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/fetch-dataset.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/fetch-dataset.yml
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ jobs:
         CODA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CODA_TOKEN || inputs.coda_token }}
         AIRTABLE_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.AIRTABLE_API_KEY || inputs.airtable_api_key }}
         YOUTUBE_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.YOUTUBE_API_KEY || inputs.youtube_api_key }}
+        OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY || inputs.openai_api_key }}
         ARD_DB_USER: ${{ secrets.ARD_DB_USER || inputs.db_user }}
         ARD_DB_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.ARD_DB_PASSWORD || inputs.db_password }}
         ARD_DB_HOST: ${{ secrets.ARD_DB_HOST || inputs.db_host }}
diff --git a/align_data/embeddings/embedding_utils.py b/align_data/embeddings/embedding_utils.py
index 1ad35df..b0b1d16 100644
--- a/align_data/embeddings/embedding_utils.py
+++ b/align_data/embeddings/embedding_utils.py
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 from typing import List, Tuple, Dict, Any, Optional, Callable
 from functools import wraps
 
-import openai
+from openai import OpenAI
+
 from langchain.embeddings import HuggingFaceEmbeddings
 from openai import (
     OpenAIError,
@@ -21,11 +22,14 @@
 from align_data.settings import (
     USE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS,
     OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL,
+    OPENAI_API_KEY,
+    OPENAI_ORGANIZATION,
     EMBEDDING_LENGTH_BIAS,
     SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL,
     DEVICE,
 )
 
+client = OpenAI(api_key=OPENAI_API_KEY, organization=OPENAI_ORGANIZATION)
 
 # --------------------
 # CONSTANTS & CONFIGURATION
@@ -90,7 +94,7 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
 @handle_openai_errors
 def _single_batch_moderation_check(batch: List[str]) -> List[ModerationInfoType]:
     """Process a batch for moderation checks."""
-    return openai.Moderation.create(input=batch)["results"]
+    return client.moderations.create(input=batch)["results"]
 
 
 def moderation_check(texts: List[str], max_batch_size: int = 4096, tokens_counter: Callable[[str], int] = len) -> List[ModerationInfoType]:
@@ -125,7 +129,7 @@ def moderation_check(texts: List[str], max_batch_size: int = 4096, tokens_counte
 @handle_openai_errors
 def _single_batch_compute_openai_embeddings(batch: List[str], **kwargs) -> List[List[float]]:
     """Compute embeddings for a batch."""
-    batch_data = openai.Embedding.create(input=batch, engine=OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, **kwargs).data
+    batch_data = client.embeddings.create(input=batch, engine=OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL, **kwargs).data
     return [d["embedding"] for d in batch_data]
 
 
diff --git a/align_data/settings.py b/align_data/settings.py
index 6f747d8..383e89f 100644
--- a/align_data/settings.py
+++ b/align_data/settings.py
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
 OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL = "text-embedding-ada-002"
 OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_DIMS = 1536
 OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_RATE_LIMIT = 3500
-openai.api_key = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY", None)
-openai.organization = os.environ.get("OPENAI_ORGANIZATION", None)
+OPENAI_API_KEY = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY", None)
+OPENAI_ORGANIZATION = os.environ.get("OPENAI_ORGANIZATION", None)
 
 SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_MODEL = "sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-cos-v1"
 SENTENCE_TRANSFORMER_EMBEDDINGS_DIMS = 768