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Here’s what we know about the man who allegedly bugged an OpenAI conference room in San Francisco

Los Angeles Times

Here’s what we know about the man who allegedly bugged an OpenAI conference room in San Francisco

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Build a continuous audio recorder. Develop speech-triggered recording. Add Wi-Fi connectivity. Encrypt memory card. These are some of the prompts an engineer arrested by federal authorities last week is accused of submitting to an artificial intelligence chatbot to program a recording device hidden in an OpenAI conference room. In a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and unsealed Tuesday, federal prosecutors allege the engineer then stashed the recording device in an executive conference room in one of the company’s San Francisco offices used for leadership meetings and briefings with government officials. The filing describes how OpenAI’s security team on Sept.

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