FBI says an OpenAI engineer used his wife’s AI chatbot to figure out how to plant a secret recording device at the office
Source: Fortune ·
FBI says Abdulrahman Alfozan, his wife and a third unnamed family member also had one-way tickets to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul.
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The chatbot prompts read like a to-do list. Build “a continuous audio recorder.” Add “live listening” and “downloading/deleting recordings.” Encrypt the SD card. Make the USB output “power-only.” Develop “a second unit and speech-triggered recording,” then “a third unit.” Finally, “apply final protection and silence boot output.” According to court documents unsealed Tuesday, the prompts were sent between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 from an AI chatbot account linked to the wife of Abdulrahman Alfozan, an OpenAI engineer, a Saudi national who has been a U.S. legal resident since Sept. 2020. Prosecutors say that on or about Sept. 28, Alfozan hid a recording device behind a television in an executive conference room in one of the company’s San Francisco buildings after prompting an AI chatbot associated with his wife to build it. The complaint does not charge his wife. The chatbot, still unknown whether it was OpenAI’s ChatGPT, referenced Alfozan’s personal AI chatbot account and shared…