A federal judge on Monday ordered a former OpenAI engineer accused of bugging an executive conference room to stay in jail, after questioning whether a $1 million bond the Saudi government offered to guarantee would bring him back if he fled. Abdulrahman Alfozan, the 35-year-old former OpenAI engineer, appeared in court today wearing an orange
A Saudi national charged with secretly planting a recording device in one of OpenAI’s meeting rooms has been accused of having “considerable support” from the Saudi government, according to a court filing, external in California. US prosecutors claimed Abdulrahman Alfozan, who worked for the AI firm, was in “frequent communication… with a member of the
Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change. Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The
