After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive?
Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for consequences caused an early Friday attack on his San Francisco home.
The OpenAI CEO’s unsubstantiated implication came in a post on his personal blog published on Friday, hours after the attack. “There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago,” he wrote. Although he initially “brushed it aside,” he said he was “pissed” and now “thinking that I have underestimated the power of words and narratives.”
A 20-year-old man was arrested early Friday after allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home. No one was hurt in the incident. The same man is suspected of also threatening to burn down a building at OpenAI’s........
