OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly using a chatbot to plant a recording device in exec meeting room
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-10-15
Federal prosecutors charged OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan with hiding an audio recorder behind a monitor in an executive meeting room, allegedly planned over weeks using an AI chatbot and an internal tool to check meeting schedules. A second device was found in his bag; he faces up to 5 years and was fired last Friday.
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