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

Abdulrahman Alfozan had worked for the AI giant for more than a year before he was arrested by the FBI.

The arrest of an OpenAI employee accused of planting a bug in an office of the artificial intelligence giant flags another concern for the industry.

The US Justice Department framed the arrest as important for national security.

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.