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**元Googleエンジニアが中国企業向けにAI機密を盗んだとして有罪判決**
- **被告**：リンウェイ（レオン）・ディング（38歳）。2019年にGoogleに入社し、2022年5月から2023年4月にかけて、GoogleのAIに関する2,000ページ超の機密情報を不正に取得。
- **盗難手口**：取得したデータを自身のGoogle Cloudアカウントへアップロードし、後に個人のPCにダウンロード。2023年末に退職し、北京行きの片道航空券を購入した時点で発覚。
- **中国企業との関係**：同期間に中国拠点の2社と秘密裏に関わり、2022年6月には新興テック企業のCTO候補、数か月後には自らAI・機械学習会社を設立しCEOを務めた。投資家には「Googleの技術をコピー・改変すればAIスパコンを構築できる」と説明。
- **裁判結果**：11日間の審理の後、カリフォルニア北部地区連邦裁判所の陪審はディングに対し、経済スパイ活動7件と営業秘密窃盗7件で有罪判決を下した。
- **米国側のコメント**：検事総長クレイグ・ミサキアンは「シリコンバレーのAI革新は経済成長と国家安全保障に不可欠であり、機密盗難は容赦されない」と声明。
この事件は、米中間のハイテク技術流出リスクと、企業内部での情報管理強化の必要性を改めて浮き彫りにした。
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from CBS News: A former Google engineer has been found guilty on multiple federal charges for stealing the tech giant's trade secrets on artificial intelligence to benefit Chinese companies he secretly worked for, federal prosecutors said. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, a jury on Thursday convicted Linwei Ding on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of trade secrets, following an 11-day trial. The 38-year-old, also known as Leon Ding, was hired by Google in 2019 and was a resident of Newark.
According to evidence presented at trial, Ding stole more than 2,000 pages of confidential information containing Google AI trade secrets between May 2022 and April 2023. He uploaded the information to his personal Google Cloud account. Around the same time, Ding secretly affiliated himself with two Chinese-based technology companies. Around June 2022, prosecutors said Ding was in discussions to be the chief technology officer for an early-stage tech company. Several months later, he was in the process of founding his own AI and machine learning company in China, acting as the company's CEO. Prosecutors said Ding told investors that he could build an AI supercomputer by copying and modifying Google's technology.
In late 2023, prosecutors said Ding downloaded the trade secrets to his own personal computer before resigning from Google. According to the superseding indictment, Google uncovered the uploads after finding out that Ding presented himself as CEO of one of the companies during an Beijing investor conference. Around the same time, Ding told his manager he was leaving the company and booked a one-way flight to Beijing. "Silicon Valley is at the forefront of artificial intelligence innovation, pioneering transformative work that drives economic growth and strengthens our national security. The jury delivered a clear message today that the theft of this valuable technology will not go unpunished," U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian said in a statement.
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