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Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts

Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts

An OpenAI Engineer Was Arrested for Hiding a Fourteen-Dollar Recorder in the Room Where Executives Meet. The Company Caught Him Using Its Own AI

Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts · Oct 16, 2026 · 4:53

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The Justice Department unsealed a complaint on October 13 charging Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old OpenAI engineer, with planting a concealed audio recorder in a San Francisco conference room reserved for executives. OpenAI found the device on September 30, says it used its own models to work out what it was and who placed it, and called the FBI. He was arrested October 9 and fired the same day.

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