OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room
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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
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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 …
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