OpenAI employee arrested over hidden listening device, company says

OpenAI said Tuesday that the FBI has arrested one of its employees in connection with a sophisticated listening device found hidden in one of the company’s offices.

The ChatGPT maker used its internal AI models to identify the person responsible for planting the device and to trace its origins, it said on X.

“At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated,” it said.

OpenAI personnel discovered the audio recording device inserted into a USB port of a television in an executive conference room in an OpenAI building in San Francisco, the Justice Department said in a news release.

The device had been concealed in toilet paper and installed “on or about Sept. 28.” It was discovered “on or about Sept. 30,” the Justice Department said.

Meetings in the conference room frequently involved discussions of “highly confidential” and “nonpublic” information, it added.

OpenAI said that its security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation-states, and that this case is an example of how AI can help address those sophisticated security threats.

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