OpenAI engineer arrested, accused of planting listening device inside company's office

A Saudi national employed by the artificial intelligence lab has been arrested after a listening device was planted in a company conference room.

An OpenAI employee with Saudi Arabian links has been busted collecting sensitive conversations from inside a conference room.

Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level executives.

Discovery of ‘sophisticated’ gadget adds to company’s list of privacy concerns after hackings by rogue agents OpenAI said it has found a hidden recording device in one of its offices and has referred the matter to the FBI. One of its employees has been arrested. In a statement…

U.S. federal agents arrested a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer and charged him with installing ​a hidden audio recording device in an ​executive conference room at the AI company, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

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…