San Francisco police arrested a suspect for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also making threats outside OpenAI's headquarters

An attacker allegedly threw a molotov cocktail at the OpenAI CEO's residence before making threats outside of the startup's headquarters.

Wired 2026-04-11 Maxwell Zeff

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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...
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