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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

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OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room

An OpenAI engineer was arrested after the company said it discovered a "sophisticated recording device" hidden in one of its offices.

The employee, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan, is charged with using or attempting to use a device to intercept oral communications, according to a report from The San Francisco Standard .

OpenAI's post about the incident says it used its AI models to "understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier." As reported by The San Francisco Standard , OpenAI found the device plugged into a TV's USB port in an executive conference room.

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