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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national.
By Emma Roth 1 min read
Key points
- An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices.
- The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national.
- OpenAI's post about the incident says it used its AI models to "understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier."
The story
An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices. The employee was identified as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national. Alfozan is charged with using or endeavoring to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.
OpenAI's post about the incident says it used its AI models to "understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier."
As noted by the DOJ, OpenAI found the device plugged into a TV's USB port in an executiv …
