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Moreno-Gama was detained by San Francisco police after he attacked OpenAI headquarters in the Mission Bay neighborhood later the same morning, the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> reported. Surveillance footage shows the Texas native throwing an outdoor chair at a glass door and holding what prosecutors said was a can of kerosene.<\/p>\n Moreno-Gama was carrying an \u201canti-AI document\u201d in which he wrote that he was planning to kill Altman, the charging document alleges. He refers to humanity\u2019s \u201cimpending extinction\u201d by artificial intelligence and urges others sympathetic to his cause to \u201ccontinue his work,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n Never Miss a Beat Moreno-Gama was charged in federal court with attempted property damage and destruction with an explosive, as well as possession of an unregistered gun. The FBI said a charge of so-called \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d could follow after investigators determine a motive.<\/p>\n According to prosecutors, Moreno-Gama approached the side of Altman\u2019s block-through compound on Russian Hill around 3:40 am Friday morning. He held a\u00a0lit Molotov cocktail in one hand and threw it toward the house before fleeing the scene, security cameras revealed.<\/p>\n Guards on the property extinguished the flames.<\/p>\n On Sunday morning, Altman\u2019s house was targeted again, according to SFPD.<\/p>\n Two individuals, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, were booked on Sunday for negligent discharge of a firearm, after a Honda sedan with two people inside pulled up to the Lombard Street entrance to Altman\u2019s property.<\/p>\n The person in the passenger seat put their hand out the window and appeared to fire a round, according to the police report, which cited surveillance footage and security personnel at the compound hearing a gunshot. The same camera captured the same car passing the home a few minutes before, the San Francisco Standard<\/a> reported. \u00a0<\/p>\n Police identified the vehicle based on the car\u2019s license plate just three blocks away on Taylor Street, where Tom and Hussein were detained minutes later. \u00a0<\/p>\n After the initial attack on Friday, Altman posted a photo of his partner and toddler to his blog, with a several-hundred word response<\/a> to the firebombing and what he termed \u201can incendiary article about me\u201d; out journalist Ronan Farrow\u2019s 16,000 word viral takedown<\/a> of Altman and AI in the New Yorker published last week may have inspired the attack, Altman inched up to saying.<\/p>\n He had initially \u201cbrushed aside\u201d that thought, he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cNow I am awake in the middle of the night and pissed, and thinking that I have underestimated the power of words and narratives. This seems like as good of a time as any to address a few things,\u201d Altman said, before launching into a defense of his own actions and a rebuttal of Farrow\u2019s indictment of Altman\u2019s role in what the writer terms a dangerous, industry-wide race to the bottom among AI leaders.<\/p>\n Altman stands out in Farrow\u2019s story as an unrepentant liar.<\/p>\n When the OpenAI board pressed Altman on a pattern of deception after he was fired earlier in his tenure, the once-and-future CEO replied matter-of-factly, \u201cI can\u2019t change my personality.\u201d<\/p>\n Prosecutors in Moreno-Gama\u2019s case said the suspect\u2019s writings also included threats against other leaders in the AI industry (along with their addresses), raising concerns about further attacks in response to the fast-evolving technology and the uncertainty surrounding it.<\/p>\n Groups evangelizing the threat of artificial \u201csuperintelligence\u201d \u2013\u00a0no fans of Altman after he abandoned OpenAI\u2019s original nonprofit mission to restrain the potentially apocalyptic technology \u2013\u00a0were forced to put distance between themselves and Moreno-Gama, if not his message of doom.<\/p>\n Moreno-Gama was linked to comments on Pause AI\u2019s Discord server, including one post from last December that\u00a0read, \u201cWe are close to midnight, it\u2019s time to actually act,\u201d Fortune<\/a> reported. The group said Moreno-Gama joined its server two years ago and posted a total of 34 messages, none of which \u201ccontained explicit calls to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n A second AI-skeptical group, Stop AI, had already been associated with violence against its stated target, though its most publicized action was simply a subpoena; the group publicly subpoenaed Altman while he shared a San Francisco stage with Warriors coach Steve Kerr last November.<\/p>\n The actions of 27-year-old Stop AI co-founder Sam Kirchner were more worrying.<\/p>\n Last fall, he threatened to go to several OpenAI offices in San Francisco to \u201cmurder people,\u201d according to callers who notified police of his alleged plans. Altman issued a shelter-in-place order.<\/p>\n Later, Kirchner allegedly assaulted another Stop AI leader, Matthew Hall, during an internal dispute in which he reportedly suggested abandoning nonviolence. Kirchner is now missing.<\/a><\/p>\n Mareno-Gama had joined Stop AI\u2019s online discourse, as well, the group said in a statement issued after the firebombing. \u00a0<\/p>\n He introduced himself, the group recounted, \u201cthen asked, \u2018Will speaking about violence get me banned?\u2019 After he was given a firm \u2018Yes,\u2019 he ceased all activities on our forum.\u201d<\/p>\n
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