OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly using wife's chatbot account to assist in bugging executive meeting rooms

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national engineer at OpenAI, was arrested on October 9 for allegedly hiding audio recording equipment in the company's executive meeting rooms. The indictment states that he obtained prompts for building the recorder, Wi-Fi connectivity, and SD card encryption through a chatbot account registered under his wife's name; the device was hidden in a TV USB port and wrapped in toilet paper. If convicted, he faces up to 5 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.