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OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden recording device in office

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it found a sophisticated recording device hidden in one of its offices. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, is charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications.

First seen 13 Oct, 20:14 UTC on r/OpenAI5 sourcesLast update 3h ago

OpenAIIncident · 13 Oct

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What the sources say

Linked, never rewritten. Official means the lab itself.

Official0

No word from OpenAI yet.

Press2

The Verge· 13 Oct, 20:45OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room Wired· 13 Oct, 23:17An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

Community3

r/OpenAI· 13 Oct, 20:14OpenAI Employee Terminated after planting bug in Office r/OpenAI· 13 Oct, 20:22OpenAI says its models traced a hidden office recorder to an employee Hacker News· 13 Oct, 20:23OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room15 points · 54 comments

How it unfolded

Every source in the order it appeared. Times in UTC.

13 Oct 20:14r/OpenAI OpenAI Employee Terminated after planting bug in Office 13 Oct 20:22r/OpenAI OpenAI says its models traced a hidden office recorder to an employee 13 Oct 20:23Hacker News OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room 13 Oct 20:45The Verge OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room 13 Oct 23:17Wired An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

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