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An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday.

Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe as a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national and US permanent resident, allegedly spent several weeks querying an unspecified “productivity agent” and an “AI chatbot” to plan his alleged surveillance operation. He used an internal OpenAI tool to ask about meetings scheduled in the targeted conference room.

He also appears to have used a chatbot account associated with his spouse to ask various technical questions about setting up a covert audio recording device, according to prosecutors and the court filing.

OpenAI’s security team also allegedly found an additional recording device that had not been installed in Alfozan’s bag at the office.

Alfozan couldn’t...

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New Apple Home Collection includes smart cameras, door lock, and thermostats made by LG and Schneider Electric

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Smartphone shipments plummet to 14-year low and it's not just about the RAM crisis — buyers are also ‘holding on to their devices longer than estimated’, report claims

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Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation

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New Apple Home Collection includes smart cameras, door lock, and thermostats made by LG and Schneider Electric

Smartphone shipments plummet to 14-year low and it's not just about the RAM crisis — buyers are also ‘holding on to their devices longer than estimated’, report claims

Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation

Which Smart TV Brands Offer The Longest Software Support?