Comment by woeirua
7 days ago
Sounds like this was just a crazy guy upset at OpenAI. Not great but an isolated incident.
That said… is anyone going to be surprised when the laid off masses torch a data center or worse? IMO, it’s only a matter of time before we see organized anti-AI terrorism too. When you have people out there saying “AI will kill us all” then it’s easy to justify using violence to stop that outcome.
Related: "A 29-year-old employee, identified as Chamel Abdulkarim, was arrested for allegedly starting a massive six-alarm fire that destroyed a Kimberly-Clark sanitary paper warehouse in Ontario, California, on April 7, 2026."
He said "All you had to do was pay us enough to live"
And this was caused not by a homeless or unemployed.
Filming himself doing something that will get him years or even decades in prison suggests he wasn’t exactly of completely sound mind when he did that.
Similar here with the guy going straight from the crime scene to OpenAI HQ to get caught
I’d be curious to hear your opinion on things like Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech then. I’m not defending the violence in this case, to be sure, but like, in general, I disagree that violence is always the irrational choice.
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I'd also call it isolated, but I mean it in a different way. I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire. Which I guess makes it notable?
> organized anti-AI terrorism too
There were already memes about that
> When you have people out there saying “AI will kill us all”
It's the "clickbait" mechanism becoming more cancerous
> I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire.
How about Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)? Attacking the tech elite was his deal.
As we've discovering with the Epstein releases, Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his time (w.r.t. David Gelernter).