OpenAI Bugging Case: "Chapter Ninety, Not Yet Written. Preorder Now."

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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: New York Post.

1. Chip DarnellFederal prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan, a thirty-five-year-old Saudi national, bugged top secret OpenAI meetings, and they say toilet paper was part of the trick.

2. Chip DarnellHe was arrested Friday. Joining us is Bartholomew Oyelaran-Voss, author of Flush With Secrets, who says he saw this coming. Sir, did you?

3. Bartholomew Oyelaran-VossChip, I predicted every bit of it, as I wrote in chapter nine, which I am holding up here next to this roll of quilted two-ply.

4. Chip DarnellSo you predicted that a bug would be hidden with toilet paper. Specifically.

5. Bartholomew Oyelaran-VossSpiritually, yes. The paper is the perfect cover, because nobody has ever looked closely at a roll in a meeting room, and I mean nobody.

6. Chip DarnellBut my producers say you also went on record that nobody would ever bug an AI company. Which is it?

7. Bartholomew Oyelaran-VossAlso correct, as I wrote in chapter eleven. The book is very thorough. It covers arrests, non-arrests, and the long middle.

8. Chip DarnellChapter eleven?

9. Bartholomew Oyelaran-VossChapter twenty-two, sorry. It's a growing text. The prosecutors have not read it, but I believe they were inspired.

10. Chip DarnellSo let me ask you again, plainly. Did you predict this arrest before Friday, yes or no?

11. Bartholomew Oyelaran-VossI predicted that something would happen in a building, to someone, involving paper. As I wrote in chapter forty, that is the whole field.

12. Chip DarnellYour book is now longer than the indictment, sir, and the indictment has a suspect in it.

13. Chip DarnellWhich chapter covers this interview?

14. Bartholomew Oyelaran-VossChapter ninety, Chip. Not yet written. Preorder now.