OpenAI said it has alerted the FBI after discovering that an employee allegedly planted a hidden recording device in one of the AI maker’s office executive conference rooms.
The employee, named by federal prosecutors as Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was fired and arrested on October 9, about a week after OpenAI discovered the surveillance device.
The company said in a post on X that it used its internal AI models to understand the “sophisticated” device. The device contained “advanced encryption, audio monitoring capabilities, and a mechanism for transferring data designed to evade monitoring,” though it is unclear to what degree this device is technically distinct from other recording devices.
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