联邦调查局正在考虑对前OpenAI工程师阿卜杜勒拉赫曼·阿尔福赞（Abdulrahman Alfozan）增加一项经济间谍罪指控，一名执法官员透露。阿尔福赞目前面临窃听指控，被指在一个受限会议室内安装窃听装置。
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking at potentially adding an economic espionage charge against Abdulrahman Alfozan, the former OpenAI engineer who faces wiretapping allegations that he bugged a restricted conference room, a law-enforcement official said.
该官员表示，调查的核心在于阿尔福赞是否从OpenAI窃取信息，意图将其提供给沙特政府，即使他并非受招募而为之。
The investigation centers on the possibility that Alfozan stole information from OpenAI in order to offer it to the Saudi government, even if he wasn’t recruited to do so, the official said.
阿尔福赞的律师威廉·佩尼克（William Pernik）表示，他未收到政府关于潜在追加指控的任何信息。“我们已明确表示，阿尔福赞先生将在法庭上而非媒体上对抗这些指控和指责，”他说。
William Pernik, a lawyer for Alfozan, said he hadn’t received any information from the government on potential additional charges. “We made it very clear that Mr. Alfozan will fight these charges and allegations in court, not in the press,” he said.
现年35岁的阿尔福赞是沙特公民，也是美国合法永久居民。他曾在麻省理工学院（MIT）攻读计算机科学，先后在Meta等科技公司任职，于2025年加入OpenAI。在10月19日的听证会上，法官认定他存在严重潜逃风险，拒绝批准保释。
Alfozan, 35, is a Saudi national and a legal permanent resident of the U.S. He studied computer science at MIT and worked at tech firms including Meta before joining OpenAI in 2025. Alfozan was denied bail in an Oct. 19 hearing, with the judge determining him to be a serious flight risk.
这名前OpenAI工程师兼沙特公民被指将一个拇指大小的电路板和麦克风用卫生纸包裹，塞入一个主要供公司高管使用的会议室内壁挂电视后方。他被控违反联邦录音法规，最高可判处五年监禁。下一次庭审定于11月6日举行。沙特驻华盛顿大使馆和OpenAI均拒绝置评。
The former OpenAI engineer and Saudi national is accused of wrapping a thumb-sized circuit board and microphone in toilet paper and inserting the device behind a wall-mounted TV inside a conference room that is mostly used by company executives. He is charged with violating a federal recording statute, which carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. His next court hearing is scheduled for Nov. 6. The Saudi embassy in Washington and OpenAI declined to comment.
该执法官员称，政府正在进行的调查正在探究阿尔福赞是否犯有窃取商业秘密等罪行，除经济间谍问题外。官员表示，调查也可能不会导致任何追加指控。
The law-enforcement official said the government’s ongoing investigation was exploring whether Alfozan committed offenses including the theft of trade secrets, in addition to questions about economic espionage. It is possible the probe won’t lead to any additional charges, the official said.
阿尔福赞的被捕引发了人们对硅谷存在间谍的担忧，从事尖端技术研发的公司长期以来一直警告员工，不法分子可能试图窃取其机密。
Alfozan’s arrest raised the specter of spies in Silicon Valley, where firms working on cutting-edge technology have long warned staff that bad actors could try to steal their secrets.
美国联邦调查局（FBI）对一起经济间谍案的调查，并不一定意味着政府会指控阿尔福赞是受沙特政府指使行事。相反，任何指控都可能建立在这样一个指控之上：他计划稍后将据称收集到的材料“推销”给沙特方面。
The FBI’s exploration of an economic espionage case doesn’t necessarily mean the government would allege that Alfozan acted at the behest of the Saudi government. Instead, any charge could rest on allegations that he planned to shop what he allegedly collected to the Saudis at a later date.
检方称，9月，阿尔福赞为自己、妻子和三个月大的儿子预订了从旧金山经伊斯坦布尔飞往沙特阿拉伯的单程机票。但在10月中旬预定出发前三天，阿尔福赞被捕。
In September, Alfozan booked one-way plane tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul for himself, his wife and three-month old son, prosecutors said. But three days before the scheduled departure in mid-October, Alfozan was arrested.
在周一的羁押听证会上披露，阿尔福赞被捕后不久，其妻子和儿子独自离境。检方称，他们乘坐商务舱飞往卡塔尔，机票由一名沙特军方人员购买。阿尔福赞的律师在法庭上表示，这名军方官员是妻子的姐夫，且并未使用军方资金购票。他们还补充说，阿尔福赞经常预订单程机票。
During Alfozan’s detention hearing on Monday, it emerged that his wife and son left without him shortly after his arrest. They flew business class to Qatar, with tickets purchased by a member of the Saudi military, prosecutors said. Alfozan’s lawyers said in court the military official was the wife’s brother-in-law and he did not use military funds to buy the ticket. They added Alfozan often booked one-way flights.
检方还指控，2025年和2026年期间，阿尔福赞与一名未具名的沙特王室成员在WhatsApp上频繁通讯。
Prosecutors also alleged that throughout 2025 and 2026, Alfozan was in frequent WhatsApp communication with an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family.
据称，这名未具名的沙特王室成员试图招募阿尔福赞参与沙特启动的一项人工智能计划。“沙特比美国更需要你！”根据法庭文件，这名王室成员对阿尔福赞说道。
The unnamed Saudi royal family member allegedly tried to recruit Alfozan for an AI initiative that was being launched in Saudi Arabia. “Saudi needs you more then [sic] the US!” the unnamed member of the royal family told Alfozan, according to a court filing.
阿尔福赞据称回复：“100。”检方称，阿尔福赞当时还表示，要等到他的OpenAI股票归属后才会离职。
Alfozan allegedly replied, “100.”Alfozan also said at the time that he wouldn’t leave until his OpenAI stock had vested, according to prosecutors.
检方称，双方最近一次通讯发生在10月5日，同一天阿尔福赞据称返回受限会议室寻找他的录音设备。
The most recent communication between them happened on Oct. 5., prosecutors said, the same day that Alfozan allegedly went back to the restricted conference room to look for his recording device.
他当时并不知情，该设备已在几天前的一次安全排查中被OpenAI移除。公司在发现该设备后不久便通报了FBI。
Unbeknown to him, the device had been removed by OpenAI during a security sweep days earlier. The company had alerted the FBI shortly after finding it.
知情人士透露，OpenAI 正试图评估 Alfozan 可能获取了哪些信息，以及这是否属于商业间谍活动或国家资助的间谍活动。《华尔街日报》的母公司新闻集团与 OpenAI 有内容合作协议。
OpenAI is trying to assess what information Alfozan may have captured and whether this was a case of corporate espionage or state-sponsored spying, a person familiar with the investigation said. The Wall Street Journal’s parent company, News Corp, has a content deal with OpenAI.
在法庭上，美国联邦治安法官 Alex G. Tse 多次提到沙特阿拉伯驻洛杉矶总领事馆的一封信，信中表示将承担 Alfozan 的全部保释金。
In court, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alex G. Tse repeatedly brought up a letter from Saudi Arabia’s Los Angeles consulate that said it would cover Alfozan’s entire bail bond.
“即使我将其定为 1000 万美元？”法官问道。“我认为这很有问题。看起来像是一张空白支票。‘无论法院想要多少钱，我们都会支付，以确保他获释。’”在最近发布的一期播客访谈中，Alfozan 回忆称曾参加 2016 年在硅谷举行的一场活动，沙特阿拉伯的穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼在那里与年轻的沙特科技从业者会面。一度，话题转到了是否应该回国。
“Even if I set it at $10 million?” asked the judge. “I find that problematic. Seems like a blank check. ‘We’re gonna pay whatever the court wants to make sure he gets out.’”In a recently released podcast interview, Alfozan recalled attending a 2016 event in Silicon Valley, where Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman met with young Saudi tech workers. At one point, the topic of whether to return to the homeland or not came up.
Alfozan 在播客访谈中回忆，穆罕默德王子告诉这群人，更好的策略是先在美国磨练技能，然后再回国。
Prince Mohammed told the group the better strategy was to hone skills in the U.S. before coming back, Alfozan recalled in the podcast interview.
“你从源头学习，然后，真主保佑，将那些经验和知识带回祖国，”Alfozan 说。
“You learn from the source and then, God willing, bring that experience and knowledge back to the homeland,” Alfozan said.