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The attacks on Sam Altman are a warning for the AI world

Before allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home, the 20-year-old accused attacker wrote about his fear that the AI race would cause humans to go extinct, The San Francisco Chronicle found. Two days later, Altman's home…

This article was originally published by The Verge and is republished here under license.

Before allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home, the 20-year-old accused attacker wrote about his fear that the AI race would cause humans to go extinct, The San Francisco Chronicle found. Two days later, Altman’s home appeared to be targeted a second time, according to The San Francisco Standard. Only a week earlier, an Indianapolis councilman reported 13 shots fired at his door, with a note that read, “No Data Centers,” after he’d supported a rezoning petition for a data center developer.

These unsettling incidents have set off alarms in and around the AI industry. There’s long been a vocal resistance to the t …

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