United Kingdom, Oct. 14 -- An OpenAI employee has been arrested after a sophisticated recording device was allegedly hidden in a conference room at the company's headquarters in San Francisco.

The AI firm said it discovered the device and used one of its own models to help determine where it came from before identifying an employee who had allegedly planted it several days earlier.

The employee, 35-year-old Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, was arrested on October 9, according to the US Department of Justice.

The FBI alleges Alfozan concealed an encrypted recording device inside toilet paper before plugging it into a television in an executive conference room on September 28.

Meetings held in the room regularly involved confidential...