FBI 逮捕涉嫌在 OpenAI 机密会议室藏匿录音设备的工程师
Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
FBI 逮捕了 35 岁的 OpenAI 工程师 Abdulrahman Alfozan，其涉嫌在一间限制进入的高管机密会议室内藏匿录音设备。该设备被卫生纸包裹后插在会议室电视背面，可能于 9 月 28 日被放置，OpenAI 于 9 月 30 日发现且内容已加密；10 月 5 日 OpenAI 在会议室安装摄像头，监控显示 Alfozan 当天试图取回该设备。
It took OpenAI two days to notice that a recording device was hidden in a restricted executive conference room where leadership met to discuss highly confidential information, including technical progress, government engagements, and commercial partnerships.
Only those with special clearance are supposed to access that room. But the FBI believes the recording device was planted by Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old engineer from Saudi Arabia, who became a permanent US legal resident in 2020. In a press release Tuesday announcing his arrest, the FBI alleged that chatbot logs and CCTV footage suggested that Alfozan—who worked as an OpenAI engineer for more than a year—sought to use the device to spy on OpenAI and risked leaking trade secrets in a way that threatened national security.
To conceal the USB device, Alfozan allegedly wrapped it in toilet paper, then plugged it into the back of a conference room television. The device was likely planted on September 28, and OpenAI found it on September 30 and quickly determined that its contents were encrypted, the FBI said. Days later, on October 5, OpenAI installed a camera in that conference room, and the CCTV footage allegedly showed Alfozan attempting to retrieve the recording device that same day.
来源：Ars Technica · AI · arstechnica.com