Discussion

• @tszzl Roon on x

  the newyorker's worst crime, aside from heightening suspicion of technologists in dangerous ways, was making us read all that. if i understood the article correctly farrow pored through through hundred page dossiers people constructed against sam and found nothing of note

• @shakeelhashim Shakeel on x

  What happened to Sam Altman and his family is really awful. It is hard to reconcile his call to “de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics” with his implication that a piece of critical journalism (Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz's New Yorker article, presumably) was responsible for […

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  @ShakeelHashim That was a bad word choice and i wish i hadn't used it. It has been a tough day and I am not thinking the most clearly that I ever have.

• @lulumeservey Lulu Cheng Meservey on x

  He's right; words and narratives have immense power This time the target was Sam; next time it may be another person or lab The people building AI are working hard to make something great for the world, even if imperfect The apocalyptic narratives about them have real [image]

• @angaisb_ Angel on x

  It's really sad that Sam has to go through this Unfortunately, I think it's going to get worse. All CEOs of the big AI labs should hire a lot more security [image]

• @joshuakushner Joshua Kushner on x

  sam is a wonderful human. many have worked very hard to make you think otherwise

• @garrisonlovely Garrison Lovely on x

  What happened today is terrible, but insinuating that journalism was responsible for it is... kinda a perfect encapsulation of the pattern of behavior outlined in that article. [image]

• @kellylsims Kelly Sims on x

  It turns out when you string a bunch of quarter-truths together exclusively from someone's bitter competitors it has consequences.

• @nbaschez Nathan Baschez on x

  Sam is right that AI is far too important for one company to control The app layer and the model layer ideally should be modularly connected to diffuse this power, but the massive subsidies that Anthropic and OpenAI offer are threatening this Idk what the solution is

• @tenobrus @tenobrus on x

  for all that i don't feel i can trust him, i can't fucking imagine being in sam's position, and there are many many many people who would have done a far worse job [image]

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  I don't care what the fuck you think about Altman, we don't firebomb people's houses as a form of expressing disagreement.

• @iruletheworldmo @iruletheworldmo on x

  please don't hurt people under the guise of saving people. it doesn't make you a martyr, just a gullible and cruel fool. sam is a great man, i wish him and his family and friends well. there's enough going on and perhaps we can pull together under our shared values of non

• @jonchu @jonchu on x

  Look guys, whatever you think of @sama, I think everyone at Ant including and especially @DarioAmodei believes that no one should be throwing molotovs at his house.

• @bigblackjacobin Edward Ongweso Jr on x

  One of the most dishonest things Sam Altman could've implied is that a critical piece of journalism by Ronan Farrow (which made clear he is a dishonest actor) caused the attack on him. Ironically enough, that's exactly what he did!

• @theo @theo on x

  I hope we can take this moment to tone down the hostility as an industry. It's okay to disagree, but the level of “evil” we have assigned people will lead to more violence.

• @traestephens Trae Stephens on x

  Well said, @sama. Threats to people's physical safety and the safety of their families is completely out of bounds. “It is important that the democratic process remains more powerful than companies” No single person or company is responsible for the entire weight of this

• @jenniferhli Jennifer Li on x

  First, no one should be personally targeted for the work they do. Disagree all you want, but threats to personal safety cross a hard line. We all have families. Second, this analogy maps uncomfortably well to AI right now. The question who's Frodo & his friends, and who becomes […

• @sama Sam Altman on x

  I wrote this early this morning and I wasn't sure if I would actually publish it, but here it is: https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512

• @tszzl Roon on x

  in light of this it feels safe to say that the farrow article was a full on nothingburger. it seems to say “I spent 18 months researching this subject and only found ex employee conflicts previously reported on”

• @jaltma Jack Altman on x

  Sam's an amazing brother, dad, and friend. He's always there for me and countless others when we need him most. Most of us would have buckled under the pressure he's under a thousand times by now. I can't tell you behind closed doors how much he is trying to do the right thing

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  @sama How can anybody take seriously your claim that “Working towards prosperity for everyone, empowering all people, and advancing science and technology are moral obligations for me”, when you seem ready to participate in mass surveillance, have ripped off countless creators wi…

• @quinnslobodian.com Quinn Slobodian on bluesky

  Unironically curious to find out what it will exactly mean for AI to be “democratized.”  —  blog.samaltman.com/2279512 [image]

• r/sanfrancisco r on reddit

  Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

• r/OpenAI r on reddit

  Altman's post about the Molotov attack- blames the journalists for this?

• r/accelerate r on reddit

  Sam's blog

• r/antiai r on reddit

  Sam Altman has released a blog responding to what's been happening

• NewsMax.com Solange Reyner on x

  Man Arrested After Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home

• @peterwildeford Peter Wildeford on x

  Truly evil and despicable stuff. This is not the way. I'm sad to see violence in reaction to AI becoming a trend lately. I hope these deranged people are brought to justice.

• @matt_slotnick Matt Slotnick on x

  this is going to get ugly. AI has a serious perception problem an industry [image]

• @sudoredj @sudoredj on x

  On other social media sites, the top comments about Altman's attempted murder are “is [the attacker] single” “wish he had a better arm” etc. If you work at a Big Lab I implore you to remove that information from any of your easily-accessible public profiles on the internet. [imag…

• @krishnanrohit Rohit on x

  Regardless of your specific beliefs this sort of stuff is reprehensible and should be condemned in the most stringent ways since the temperature of the rhetoric is only going to increase as AI diffuses more into the real world.

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  AI hasn't even replaced 1% of jobs and people are already throwing Molotov cocktails on the houses of AI CEOs

• @mattparlmer @mattparlmer on x

  Only gonna get worse

• @pissvortex @pissvortex on x

  Firebombing a walmart theory totally vindicated

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Sam Altman on the lure of The Ring.  [screenshot: “My personal takeaway from the last several years, and take on why there has been so much Shakespearean drama between the companies in our field, comes down to this: 'Once you see AGI you can't unsee it.' It has a real ‘ring of po…

• @zeffmax Max Zeff on x

  This story was just updated with an internal message OpenAI's corporate security team sent to staff on Friday: [screenshot: “At approximately 3:45am PT, an unidentified individual approached Sam's residence and threw an incendiary device toward the property.  The device landed ne…

• @_nathancalvin Nathan Calvin on x

  This is beyond disturbing and awful. Whatever disagreements you have with Sam or OpenAI, this cannot be normalized or justified in any way. Everyone deserves to be able to be safe with their families at home. I feel ill and hope beyond hope this does not become a pattern.

• @cernovich @cernovich on x

  I guarantee you that this terrorist is not “right wing.” It's undoubtedly one of the little pets Mark Zuckerberg, Sam (rigged ChatGPT against conservatives and pushes Marxism) and others in Big Tech enabled. I'll try not to lose sleep knowing their feral animals turned on them.

• @deanwball Dean W. Ball on x

  The guy who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail through Sam Altman's window seems to have been an adherent to pause/stop AI. I am entirely unsurprised and have been warning about this for a long time now. I am fine with people advocating for their preferred policies—if that [image…

• @katiemiller Katie Miller on x

  Everyone deserves to feel safe in their home, especially with kids.

• @jeffladish Jeffrey Ladish on x

  Violence towards AI executives/employees/etc is bad. Violent acts like these are pure cope. Actual constructive action requires coordination between many people. That's harder than random acts of violence, but it's the actual way we progress as a society

• @tenobrus @tenobrus on x

  this is how it starts . [image]

• @hagenblix Hagen Blix on bluesky

  If it turns out that ChatGPT told him to, I'm gonna start using this as an example to teach the concept of “internal contradiction”

• @gigawattconduit.blacksky.app Justin Carter on bluesky

  Ah, we're at *this* part of anti-AI/big tech sentiment www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

• @scriban @scriban on bluesky

  Must be an investor.  [embedded post]

• @couts Andrew Couts on bluesky

  NEW: Someone allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house then went to OpenAI headquarters to make threats at workers. @lmatsakis.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/sam-al...

• r/stupidpol r on reddit

  OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail

• r/bayarea r on reddit

  Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home

• r/sanfrancisco r on reddit

  Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Sam Altman's Home

• @ns123abc Nik on x

  this is horrible..... the thing about culture is when the Overton window shifts and the smallest thing become sa big deal. mocking and critiquing you was warranted for a while but even I am going to take a break because it's little bit too real right now... stay safe

• @signulll @signulll on x

  @sama that sucks, sorry to hear. personal attacks are lame af. fwiw i suspect the majority of the population think very highly of you & what you've done for the world. it means a lot.

• @mehran__jalali Mehran Jalali on x

  I found the Instagram of the guy who threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house His Instagram references the crusade of humans against AI from Dune [image]

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  @sama Your service gives me, my family, and friends a lot of joy. Hope it is returned 100 times. The people who take things to violence are just wrong and should spend many years in jail.

• @amasad Amjad Masad on x

  @sama Sorry this happened. And impressive you turned very bitter lemons into lemonade with this great post.

• @daveshapi David Shapiro on x

  Hoooo boy he framed himself as “conflict-averse” as the root cause of all the pain with the board. Not quite a masterclass in rhetoric, but I'm sure the average knuckle-dragger won't catch that. “No, no, I'm not manipulative or a liar, I'm actually just conflict averse.”

• @garymarcus Gary Marcus on x

  At this point how can anybody take seriously @sama's claim that “Working towards prosperity for everyone, empowering all people, and advancing science and technology are moral obligations for me”, when he seems ready to participate in mass surveillance, has ripped off countless

• @elizabethholmes Elizabeth Holmes on x

  @sama @ShakeelHashim Sam, you are human. Hug your baby, hold your husband tight. Hang in there. You got this.

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  Of course [image]

• @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x

  I interviewed @sama when he started his first company. Years before anyone knew who he was. He was gracious, caring, and smart. The video we did in a Half Moon Bay Mexican restaurant is up on YouTube. I have had my problems with how he did some things. And I am sure he could

• @boazbaraktcs Boaz Barak on x

  There is never any justification for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a family's house. The fact that, after such an event, @sama can write a gracious and reflective post is a testament to his ability to see the bigger picture. Such ability will be sorely needed in the times ahead.

• @sebastienbubeck Sebastien Bubeck on x

  Just to say it out loud, @sama is an incredible leader, and just a ton of fun to work with. I have never seen such a gap between the public image and what I believe to be true (arguably I don't know that many people with Sam's level of public profile 😅)

• @primalnick Nick Donahue on x

  The number of times I've seen Sam help people is beyond what I could have conceived. I always thought that people like him sat in an ivory tower and stayed away from everyone else. Not Sam. He is one of the most caring people I've ever met. He has helped so many people who had no

• @jrkelly Jason Kelly on x

  Just a note that @sama has been one of the biggest influences on me over the years and I'm lucky to have him in my life. He works on things he cares about, takes real early risk on people he believes in that are doing meaningful things, and has helped a lot of us. We could do a

• r/LovingAI r on reddit

  Sam Altman Blog: “Images have power, I hope.  Normally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes …

• @chiefofautism @chiefofautism on x

  you are no longer allowed to criticize sam altman because someone threw a bottle at his house and if you point this out you are legally responsible you are inspiring violence

• @jachiam0 Joshua Achiam on x

  I call bullshit. People routinely write incendiary material about Sam. That piece was absolutely one of them. This is a shameful reaction on a day where someone tried to hurt Sam.

• @ramez Ramez Naam on x

  I don't think it's good that Pause AI deleted the messages of the person who threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home.

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  June 11, 2024 Introduction: “I am very passionate about this issue and am willing to learn and help whatever means necessary” “Is there any sort of timeline for how long humanity has left?” [image]

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  PauseAI DELETED their member Butlerian Jihadist/dmgama, AKA Daniel Moreno-Gama, from their Discord server. But... I obtained all the messages he wrote in their group chat before they were deleted. Below are the screenshots. [image]

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  December 3, 2025 “We are close to midnight, it's time to actually act” “Do you really think we have any time left?” [image]

• @drtechlash Nirit Weiss-Blatt, PhD on x

  November 5-6, 2025 “People will never feel as saliently about lesser AI risk as they will about a possible incoming extinction event (which we know is very likely but they don't believe it just yet). And we need that salience and passion for this movement to work.” “We owe it to …

• @vkhosla Vinod Khosla on x

  Really sorry this happened to you and your family. Strong post. I thought this was thoughtful, vulnerable, and responsible—especially your acknowledgment that anxiety about AI is justified, and that the answer has to be better dialogue, not escalation. Wishing you all safety

• @sandralmur Sandra Murray on x

  @Houda_nait Not a single person should ever have to face something like this in their own homes with their family and their children. I am very sad that Sam, his husband and his baby were attacked. It is inexcusable and unacceptable. And since you mentioned on this kind of post t…

• @houda_nait Houda Nait El Barj on x

  Sam is genuinely one of the kindest, most thoughtful people I know. Every interaction I've had or seen has shown me someone who truly cares about helping others and finding solutions, no matter who they are. He's the reason ChatGPT has a free tier, always pushing to make sure AI

• @ericnewcomer Eric Newcomer on x

  @TheRealAdamG Works at OpenAI... putting that aside... you can hate the article as much as you want but attaching it to a violent incident is wrong. is OpenAI about to embrace that standard with ChatGPT and cranks

• @vkhosla Vinod Khosla on x

  The hardest part to take seriously is the appeal for trust from someone whose history gives people reasons to question his candor and thoughtfulness. More like a popularity hound. His two startups achieved little other than scam Uber but you fancy yourself an aficionado while

• @provisionalidea James Rosen-Birch on x

  I don't know who's doing @sama's crisis comms, but they keep taking moments of great opportunity to build sympathy and goodwill, and turning them into own-goals. A simple statement calling for civility and dialogue over violence could have gone so far. This does the opposite.