[Employee Accused of Eavesdropping on OpenAI's Office Pleads Not Guilty] According to CNBC, Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi employee accused of installing eavesdropping devices at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, appeared in San Francisco federal court on Friday and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Court records show that a grand jury indicted him on October 27 on one count of intercepting verbal communications, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison if convicted. Alfozan has been detained without bail since his arrest in early October, and the judge ordered him to appear in court again on November 17.