FBI 逮捕一名 OpenAI 员工，其被指在会议室放置隐藏录音设备
FBI arrests OpenAI employee accused of planting hidden recording device in conference room
OpenAI 发现一名员工在旧金山办公室高管会议室放置隐藏录音设备后通知 FBI，该员工于 10 月 9 日被解雇并逮捕。联邦检察官称，这名沙特籍员工名为 Abdulrahman Alfozan，被控未经许可秘密录制他人语音，若罪名成立面临五年监禁。OpenAI 表示已用内部 AI 模型分析该设备，目前没有迹象显示此人访问或窃取了模型权重、源代码或客户数据。
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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. OpenAI told TechCrunch that 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.
“At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data,” said OpenAI in its post on X.
OpenAI’s spokesperson, Nate Evans, confirmed that the employee started with the AI model maker in July 2025 and worked on the product team.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said Alfozan was charged with using an electronic device to intercept oral communications — effectively accusing him of covertly recording people’s voice audio without their permission. Prosecutors said OpenAI caught the device after it was inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in OpenAI’s San Francisco office.
Per the prosecutors, Alfozan was caught looking behind the television where the recording device was placed, and where OpenAI had placed a camera that allegedly caught the employee.
It’s not clear exactly for what purpose the recording device was used, but FBI director Kash Patel said the scheme was to “capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology.”
Neither Alfozan nor his attorney could be immediately reached for comment. He faces five years in prison if convicted.
When reached, a spokesperson for the FBI reiterated a statement made by Patel.
“Protecting American SI innovation is essential to safeguarding our nation’s economic strength and national security, and the FBI views that mission as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities,” Patel said.