2026年10月13日 / 美国东部时间晚上7:43 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：萨拉·N·林奇
萨拉·N·林奇 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻资深司法部记者
萨拉·N·林奇常驻华盛顿特区，是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的资深司法部记者。
美国司法部周二表示，一名涉嫌秘密在公司一间会议室安装窃听装置的OpenAI员工已因刑事指控被捕。
35岁的沙特国民阿卜杜勒拉赫曼·阿尔福赞于周五被捕，并于周二在加利福尼亚州北区美国联邦地区法院首次出庭。阿尔福赞被控试图使用电子、机械或其他设备截获口头通信。
检方表示，阿尔福赞自2025年7月起以工程师身份在OpenAI工作。
9月30日，该公司员工在一间行政会议室的电视背面的USB接口中发现了一枚音频窃听装置。该公司随后确认，这枚窃听装置被藏在卫生纸中，于被发现前两天安装。
![在OpenAI会议室发现的秘密窃听装置未注明日期的照片 政府供图]
司法部称，该会议室经常被OpenAI员工用于讨论高度机密和专有事项，包括研究、产品规划和业务发展。
OpenAI在一份声明中表示，发现装置后，公司已联系联邦调查局，并解雇了被指控安装装置的员工。
“联邦调查局的调查仍在进行中，我们将继续配合其工作。目前，我们没有迹象表明该人员不当访问或泄露了模型权重、源代码或客户数据，”该公司表示。
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“我们高度重视保护我们的技术、数据和员工，这关乎国家利益。我们的安全计划旨在防范包括内部风险、网络罪犯和国家在内的各类威胁行为者，本案也体现了人工智能如何助力应对这些复杂的安全威胁。”
联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔在X平台上发帖称，联邦调查局及其合作伙伴已实施逮捕，调查仍在继续。
阿尔福赞的律师威廉·佩尼克向哥伦比亚广播公司新闻表示，其当事人被推定无罪，并告诫人们“在本案的最初阶段，已知信息极少的情况下不要仓促下定论”，也不要基于国籍等因素“将起诉政治化”。
周二公开的刑事起诉书指控阿尔福赞使用一款生产力工具查询OpenAI的办公楼地址、会议室、会议室容量和日程安排，以及“领导层和高管”会议与外部合作伙伴会议的地点。
与此同时，调查中收集到的其他证据显示，一个关联阿尔福赞配偶的聊天机器人账号也在9月24日至9月30日期间发送了相关提示，内容涉及制造、定制、安装、音频录制、测试、伪装和远程访问一台持续运行的音频窃听装置。
起诉书中附带的一张照片显示，阿尔福赞于10月5日进入藏有装置的会议室，并查看了电视后方。
起诉书称，同日阿尔福赞将背包留在另一间房间无人看管，公司安保人员打开背包后发现了他的身份证件、钱包，以及另一台与安装在会议室的装置类似的窃听设备。
阿尔福赞将于10月19日再次出席联邦法院的羁押听证会。
乔·沃尔什为本报道贡献了内容。
FBI arrests OpenAI employee for allegedly planting recording device in company offices
October 13, 2026 / 7:43 PM EDT / CBS News
By Sarah N. Lynch
Sarah N. Lynch Senior Justice Department Reporter
Sarah N. Lynch is the senior Justice Department reporter for CBS News, based in Washington, D.C.
An OpenAI employee suspected of secretly planting a recording device in one of the company’s conference rooms has been arrested on criminal charges, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national, was arrested Friday and made his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Tuesday. Alfozan was charged with trying to use an electronic, mechanical, or other device to intercept oral communications.
Prosecutors said that Alfozan had worked at OpenAI as an engineer since July 2025.
On Sept. 30, the company’s employees discovered the audio recording device inserted into a USB port on the back of a television inside an executive conference room. The company later determined that the recording device had been concealed in toilet paper and installed about two days before it was discovered.
Undated photo of secret recording device found in OpenAI conference room Government photo
The meeting room where it was hidden was often used by OpenAI’s employees to discuss highly confidential and proprietary matters, including research, product plans and business development, the Justice Department said.
In a statement, OpenAI said that after discovering the device, it contacted the FBI and has terminated the employee accused of planting it.
“The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data,” the company said.
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“We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said in a post on X that the FBI and its partners had carried out the arrest and that the investigation is ongoing.
Alfozan’s attorney, William Pernik, noted to CBS News that his client is presumed innocent, and cautioned against “jumping to conclusions at this very early stage of the case when very little information is known,” or seeking to “politicize” a prosecution based on factors like nationality.
The criminal complaint, made public on Tuesday, alleged that Alfozan used a productivity tool to make inquiries about OpenAI’s building addresses, meeting rooms, meeting-room capacities and calendars, and locations of “leadership and exec” and external partner meetings.
Other evidence gathered in the investigation, meanwhile, showed that a chatbot account associated with Alfozan’s spouse had also submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30, related to building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating and remote accessing a continuous audio recording device.
A photograph included in the complaint also shows that Alfozan entered the conference room where the device was hidden on Oct. 5 and looked behind the television.
That same day, the complaint says Alfozan left his bag unattended in another room, and the company’s security personnel opened it and found his ID, wallet and another recording device similar to the one planted in the conference room.
Alfozan is due to appear in federal court again on Oct. 19 for a detention hearing.
Joe Walsh contributed to this report.
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