Technology4/14/2026•The Verge

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

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

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The vast majority of AI resistance is nonviolent, but recent attacks highlight the risk. The vast majority of AI resistance is nonviolent, but recent attacks highlight the risk. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. 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

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