Will the backlash against AI turn violent?

对人工智能的强烈反对会变成暴力行为吗?

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2026-04-24

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An attack on the home of OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman – and on the company’s headquarters – has led to concerns the backlash against AI could become violent. Guardian journalist Nick Robins-Early and researcher Sean Fleming discuss. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • Today, could the backlash against AI turn violent?

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  • It happened in the early hours of the morning, a couple of Fridays ago.

  • Surveillance footage shows him in a champion hoodie walking up towards the gate of this mansion,

  • holding a Molotov cocktail in one hand.

  • And then he proceeds to hurl the Molotov cocktail at the house and flee.

  • The house was in the exclusive Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.

  • It belonged to Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI.

  • And the attacker wasn't done there.

  • About an hour and a half later, he shows up three miles away at the headquarters of OpenAI,

  • the artificial intelligence company that Sam Altman is the CEO of.