Today on the AI Daily Brief, why AI populism is turning violent and what we can do about it.

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To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash AI Daily Brief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you are interested in learning about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors at AIDailybrief.aI. Lastly, I am back from travel and had intended today to be a normal episode, headlines, main, etc. But the discourse and discussion around the multiple attacks on Sam Altman's house over the weekend, I think creates a context to zoom out in a way that I believe is unfortunately important right now. We will be back with our regular format tomorrow, and I've got some great episodes this week coming up about changes to Claude, how people are building things in new ways with AI. So we will be back very shortly with our operator-centric content. But for now, let's get into what happened this weekend. Today we are doing an episode which, on the one hand, I wished I would never have to do, and on the other has for some time felt increasingly inevitable. At 4 a.m. on Friday morning, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home. The gate was set ablazed, and there were no injuries. It was mostly just terrifying. Suspect Daniel Moreno Gamma was later arrested outside the OpenAI headquarters,

threatening to burn the place down to the ground.

Police said that the 20-year-old Moreno Gamma was in possession of an anti-AI manifesto,

a jug of kerosene, and a lighter at the time of his arrest.

When the FBI raided his Texas home on Monday morning, they found a written document

that police said not only displayed anti-AI sentiment, but also which included the names and addresses

of other AI executives, investors, and board members.

Prosecutors have declined to name the other people on the list.

An affidavit said that the written document identified views opposed to artificial intelligence

and discussed the purported risk AI poses to humanity. The manifesto included the line,

If I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example

and show that I am fully sincere in my message. Morano Gamma had been posting anti-AI

and ex-risk related messages and content on substack, Instagram, and as part of the Paws

AI Discord,

where he posted under the name Butlerian jihadist. One post from December said,

If we do nothing very soon, we will die. I'm very sure of that. A substack essay in January

discussed the existential risk post by AI executives that, quote, appear to lack strong morals.

In that essay, he wrote, These people are almost nothing like you. They are most likely sociopathic slash psychopathic,

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