S0:E51: An OpenAI Engineer Allegedly Bugged the Boardroom TV
An OpenAI engineer has been arrested, accused of planting a covert audio recording device — built from a USB voice recorder wrapped in tissue paper — behind the TV in the company's San Francisco executive conference room.
Jess and Jake walk through the FBI complaint: surveillance footage placing him near the room on multiple occasions, an unattended bag containing a second recording device and his ID, and chatbot logs (tied to an account associated with his spouse) with prompts about building, concealing, and remotely accessing an audio recorder.
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