US Justice Department charges OpenAI engineer in case involving hidden recorder in executive conference roomMachine translation

Prosecutors allege an OpenAI engineer used a ChatGPT account tied to his wife to plan, step by step, an encrypted, speech-triggered audio recorder with silenced boot output. https://t.co/cmUKgOJrry

This is Abdulrahman Alfozan, the 35-year-old OpenAI engineer now charged by the US Justice Department over a hidden recording device in an executive conference room. Here, he is being interviewed on LinkedIn post as the only Saudi employee at OpenAI. (Link to the original LinkedIn post in comment. )

FT: The OpenAI engineer charged with bugging an executive conference room had booked one-way flights to Saudi Arabia, prosecutors say. Newly unsealed filings show Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife and a third relative held tickets for October 12, 3 days after his arrest. Prosecutors used those bookings to get the complaint sealed on October 8, arguing he had the means and incentive to flee if he learned of the case first.