Former Google Employee Charged with Stealing AI Secrets

A former Google software engineer has been charged with stealing the company’s artificial intelligence trade secrets while surreptitiously working for two Chinese companies, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.

Linwei Ding, a Chinese national, was arrested in Newark, California, for four charges of federal trade secret theft, each punishable by up to ten years in prison.

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the case against Ding, 38, at an American Bar Association conference in San Francisco. Garland, along with other law enforcement leaders, has repeatedly warned about the threat of Chinese economic surveillance as well as the national security concerns posed by developments in artificial intelligence and other novel technologies.

“Today’s charges are the latest illustration of the lengths affiliates of companies based in the People’s Republic of China are willing to go to steal American innovation,” FBI Director Christopher Wray noted in a statement. “The theft of innovative technology and trade secrets from American companies can cost jobs and have devastating econ

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