Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan pleads not guilty to charges of installing a listening device in a conference room
Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan pleaded not guilty to charges of installing a listening device in a company executive conference room; his lawyer filed the plea on Friday, after a grand jury indicted him on one felony count of unlawfully intercepting oral communications. He has been held in custody since his arrest on October 9, and the judge found that his ties to Saudi Arabia constitute a flight risk. The indictment does not allege theft of trade secrets or work for a foreign government, and the company also said there is no indication that he took model weights or source code.
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Former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan pleaded "not guilty" to bugging an executive conference room at the company.
His lawyer entered the plea Friday, after a grand jury indicted him on a felony count of intercepting oral communications.
He has been jailed since his Oct. 9 arrest after a judge agreed his Saudi ties made him a flight risk.
No charge alleges trade-secret theft or work for a foreign government, and the company reports no sign he took model weights or source code.
So far, the record shows an alleged attempt to overhear an AI lab’s leadership, not what the encrypted recorder caught or for whom.