US EditionSuspect in attack at Sam Altman’s house charged with attempted murder and attempted arson
Authorities say he wrote an anti-AI manifesto and faces up to 20 years on the federal explosives count.
- On Friday, 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's Russian Hill home, and he now faces state charges including attempted murder and attempted arson.
- Authorities allege Moreno-Gama traveled from Texas to San Francisco after writing about artificial intelligence's purported risk to humanity; investigators recovered a document on him that 'identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence and the executives of various AI companies.'
- Shortly after the home attack, Moreno-Gama allegedly targeted OpenAI's headquarters, where security personnel told investigators he 'stated in sum and substance' that he came 'to burn it down and kill anyone inside.'
- U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian said authorities 'will treat this as an act of domestic terrorism,' while Altman wrote that sharing a family photo might 'dissuade the next person' from throwing a Molotov cocktail.
- While PauseAI said it 'unequivocally condemns this attack,' a Stanford University report found that most people see AI benefits, yet 'nervousness is growing and trust in institutions to manage the technology remains uneven.
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A 20-year-old Texas man accused of firebombing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home was carrying a manifesto that listed the names and home addresses of other artificial intelligence executives and investors, federal authorities said. Daniel Moreno-Gama allegedly travelled from Spring, Texas, to San Francisco with the specific intent to kill Altman, throwing a Molotov cocktail at the tech executive's residence around 4 a.m. on April 10 bef…
‘This Should Be a Nightly Occurrence’: How Social Media Users Cheered the Attacks on Sam Altman
“Sam Altman is, like, evil as shit.”“This should be a nightly occurrence.”“All I can say is I’m disappointed that they didn’t train their aim.”“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”These were just some of the messages on Reddit and social media in the hours after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked. The point, in all of them, was the same: Altman had it coming.On Friday, April 10, at 3:45 a.m., Da…
FBI release photos of suspect in Sam Altman molotov cocktail attack
A Texas man was charged with hurling a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and attempting to set fire to the AI firm's headquarters. Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, was captured on surveillance video throwing an incendiary device outside Altman's San Francisco residence, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation affidavit filed in federal court on Monday (April 13). The U.S....
The man accused of attempting to assassinate OpenAI's director general, Sam Altman, throwing an incendiary bomb at his home in San Francisco, was going through a mental health crisis and the prosecutors have charged him with excessive charges, his public defender said Tuesday.
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