Toilet paper and secret recorders: What we know about the arrest of the Saudi OpenAI engineer
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A recording device (R) was wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into a TV (L) A Saudi national who worked for OpenAI appeared in court this week for allegedly planting a secret recording device behind a TV in one of the tech giant's meeting rooms.
录音设备（右）用卫生纸包裹并插入电视（左） 一名为 OpenAI 工作的沙特公民本周出庭，罪名是在该科技巨头一间会议室的电视后面安装秘密录音设备。
Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old engineer, was arrested by the FBI and charged with using or attempting to use a device "to intercept oral communications".
35 岁的工程师阿卜杜拉赫曼·阿尔福赞 (Abdulrahman Alfozan) 被联邦调查局 (FBI) 逮捕，并被指控使用或试图使用“拦截口头通信”的设备。
As yet, it is not clear what he was planning to do with the recordings.
目前还不清楚他打算如何处理这些录音。
The engineer asked AI to help him listen in to discussions about AI, according to an official complaint (the document filed in court).
根据一份官方诉状（提交给法庭的文件），这位工程师请求 AI 帮助他聆听有关 AI 的讨论。
Between 17 August and 16 September, Alfozan had reportedly asked a productivity AI assistant several questions about meeting rooms and their availability.
据报道，8 月 17 日至 9 月 16 日期间，阿尔福赞向生产力人工智能助理询问了几个有关会议室及其可用性的问题。
Some detailed in the complaint include "how about external partners, where would they usually meet with OpenAI at" and "can you list today's meeting in this room".
投诉中的一些细节包括“外部合作伙伴怎么样，他们通常会在哪里与 OpenAI 会面”和“你能列出今天在这个房间举行的会议吗”。
The complaint also claimed that in September, Alfozan used a chatbot associated with his spouse to ask how to build and install a recording device and how to access it remotely.
投诉还声称，9 月份，阿尔福赞使用与其配偶关联的聊天机器人询问如何构建和安装录音设备以及如何远程访问它。
Alfozan had worked at the firm for around a year before he allegedly made his attempt to plant a recorder.
据称，阿尔福赞在该公司工作了大约一年，然后才据称尝试安装录音机。
The room where the device was found was regularly used to hold meetings to discuss "highly confidential technical, commercial and strategic information" as well as OpenAI's "government engagements and commercial relationships", the complaint stated.
诉状称，发现该设备的房间经常被用来召开会议，讨论“高度机密的技术、商业和战略信息”以及 OpenAI 的“政府参与和商业关系”。
Alfozan had no authority to access or be involved with meetings in the room, the complaint states.
诉状称，阿尔福赞无权进入或参与该房间的会议。
But CCTV footage recorded him near the conference room on eight separate occasions in September.
但闭路电视录像在 9 月份有八次在会议室附近记录到他的身影。
On 30 September, OpenAI staff discovered a "surreptitious audio recording device" behind a television - which had been wrapped in toilet paper.
9 月 30 日，OpenAI 工作人员在电视机后面发现了一个“秘密录音装置”，该装置被卫生纸包裹着。
A camera was placed in the conference room and on 5 October, Alfozan was filmed entering the room and appeared to look behind the television where the device had been inserted.
会议室里放置了一台摄像机，10 月 5 日，有人拍到阿尔福赞进入房间，并似乎在看电视后面插入该设备的地方。
The complaint also stated that same day he allegedly left an unattended bag in a different room.
投诉还称，当天他据称将一个无人看管的包留在了另一个房间。
When security personnel opened it, it was found to contain "another recording device" similar to the one discovered, as well as Alfozan's wallet and ID.
当安全人员打开它时，发现里面有与发现的类似的“另一个录音设备”，以及阿尔福赞的钱包和身份证。
In a post on X, external, OpenAI wrote it had used its own AI models to "understand the device and where it had come from".
OpenAI 在 X、external 上的一篇文章中写道，它使用自己的人工智能模型来“了解设备及其来源”。
It also said: "At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data."
它还表示：“目前，我们没有迹象表明此人不当访问或窃取模型权重、源代码或客户数据。”
Alfozan was captured looking behind a television where a device had been inserted Alfozan had been employed as an engineer by OpenAI since July 2025.
阿尔福赞被拍到在电视机后面看电视，电视机后面插入了一个装置 Alfozan 自 2025 年 7 月起受聘为 OpenAI 工程师。
The complaint said he was educated in the US and has been a legal permanent resident since 2020.
诉状称，他在美国接受教育，自2020年以来一直是合法永久居民。
He was arrested by the FBI on 9 October and his contract with OpenAI has been terminated. Alfozan's lawyer William Pernik told the BBC: "Like countless Americans, Mr Alfozan came to this country years ago as a young person with a dream.
他于 10 月 9 日被 FBI 逮捕，与 OpenAI 的合同已终止。 阿尔福赞的律师威廉·佩尼克告诉英国广播公司：“像无数美国人一样，阿尔福赞先生多年前作为一个怀揣梦想的年轻人来到这个国家。
"These allegations appear wholly out of character for him, and we will relentlessly investigate all evidence produced by the government in this case to understand what actually happened, who was responsible and any possible reasons why."
“这些指控对他来说完全不符合他的性格，我们将不懈地调查政府在本案中提供的所有证据，以了解到底发生了什么、谁应该负责以及任何可能的原因。”
Pernik added: "In the meantime, we respectfully ask everyone to withhold judgment until full facts become known.
佩尔尼克补充道：“与此同时，我们谨请大家在了解全部事实之前不要做出判断。
Like every one of us, Mr Alfozan is presumed innocent, and what has been made public is an accusation, not a finding of guilt."
和我们每个人一样，阿尔福赞先生被认为是无罪的，所公开的是一项指控，而不是一项有罪判决。”
On Tuesday, Alfozan made his initial appearance in a federal court in California. A detention hearing is scheduled on 19 October to determine whether he should remain in custody while proceedings continue.
周二，阿尔福赞首次出现在加利福尼亚州联邦法院。 拘留听证会定于 10 月 19 日举行，以确定在诉讼程序继续进行期间是否应继续拘留他。
If convicted, Alfozan faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 (£190,000) fine.
如果罪名成立，阿尔福赞最高将面临五年监禁和 25 万美元（19 万英镑）的罚款。
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