Risky Business · Wednesday, October 21, 2026
The hosts discuss court documents revealing that a Saudi Arabian OpenAI employee who communicated with a member of the Saudi royal family placed a listening device behind a conference room television. The employee had previously searched AI models for advice on corporate espionage.
“This guy is a Saudi Arabian guy, was working for OpenAI, putting... he put a bug behind a television in a conference room”
“both last year and this year. And, you know, this royal... allegedly was trying to recruit him for some sort of Saudi Arabian AI initiative”