Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

babelfish

https://archive.is/eLssu

echelon

I have a few predictions for this year: 1. Violent attacks against AI CEOs, researchers, and engineers is going to begin. This is due to widespread negative press that AI receives and as well as a pervasive feeling of economic uncertainty and doom in the population. Some of this being caused by the current administration's leadership, but much of it attributed to AI taking jobs and destroying opportunity. 2. Violent acts taken against non-tech CEOs will increase hand-in-hand. 3. If AI continues to demonstrate impressive new capabilities for automation, this rate will increase substantially. 4. The government may come down hard on these individuals, which will further inflame the situation. 5. Data centers will come under attack / sabotage. 6. This will all wind up further inflamed by prediction markets. I have a colleague at Anthropic that refuses to put it on his LinkedIn. We all now know why.

avaer

In case someone reading this is thinking similar thoughts: there's no version of reality where doing this will solve any problem. Don't.

granzymes

Political violence is not acceptable in a democracy. Full stop, no "but". That's all that needs to be said on this thread.

Avicebron

Violence won't solve anything, everyone is worse off.

GeoSys

Any word on the motivation of the attach? Any manifesto or a group taking responsibility?

hgoel

Crazy, as bad of a person as I think Altman is, he isn't even the worst AI CEO. But even the worst of them doesn't deserve this.

lrvick

Look, I think Sam Altman is a terrible person too, but to anyone reading that hates people like him as much as I do you should want him alive while we work to build a world where he can live out a long life in complete safety, in prison. Violence never solves anything. You will never make anything in this world better by becoming a worse person than your enemies.

bb88

Powerful people get attacked all the time. Why is this different? Why is this newsworthy? AI? So? Can Sam Altman not afford security for his house? I'm confused. Let's look at history: Nancy Pelosi's husband (D). Steve Scalise (R). Ronald Regan (R). Gabby Giffords (D). Abraham Lincoln (R). Harvey Milk (D, I assume). Martin Luther King Jr. (D, I assume). John F Kennedy (D).

maplethorpe

I feel like Altman's PR team is dropping the ball. We somehow need to get the word out that AI tools will benefit all of humanity, not detract from it.

nickvec

Altman needs to sell off that house and move to an anonymized address. I don’t see these attacks letting up any time soon. Two targeted attacks in three days is nuts.

zaradvutra

It's bad that this happened, but this kind of stochastic violence targeting the weatlhy and powerful will only grow more frequent. The average person has next to no social mobility anymore. People are having fewer and fewer kids. They have depressed wages with no prospect of owning a home (leave-it-to-your-kids 40yr loans are popping up where I live). They have issues covering health care costs and medicine for themselves, their parents, and their children. They have no faith in their system because it continued to erode year by year, while allowing for massive wealth concentration by a select few. Add to that the inability to organize -- the cluster of cameras and microphones we all carry, the public surveilance equipment (LP readers, gait detectors, traffic sniffers), and the loose-lipped electronic-only discourse -- any serious movement will be nipped in the bud by the ruling system to maintain status quo. Just don't riot and keep working, please , the billionares are starving.

dctwin

The layoffs haven't even really started yet... I'm very worried about the next two years

wolvesechoes

Somewhat funny to read all these holy, well-tamed, moral people condemning violence with most dumb, ungrounded "violence bad" that cannot even hold a second of scrutiny. Yes, violence shouldn't be the first resort, and when violence is unleashed innocent suffer as well, but there is a great difference between choosing not to use violence due to whatever consideration, and being so toothless and tamed that a sight of dog that finally bites when being constantly beaten sickens you.

petterroea

Not a proponent of this, but it's worth understanding that a certain part of the population believe once AGI is reached the world will change, and whoever reached it first wields all power. The increase in usability of recent models has no doubt shocked them. With such a mindset it does make sense to consider it a life or death thing. I can understand that some people think attacking these companies is the only way of protecting themselves from a whole different and much less dignified life. I don't know if they are right, neither in world view nor conclusion. But it seems this is the world we currently lived in. This is one of the cases where for once i wish there was a manifesto to read, because i badly want to understand why

simianwords

Prediction: the general populace have internalised Marxism to such an extent that they think class warfare is the solution to everything. You get comments like "violence is bad but we would not have $x if not for violence" and then you get to justify violence for any pet cause they have. I expect to see more of this until it dies down because of how ridiculous the premise is.