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A 20-year-old man was arrested by nan San Francisco Police Department aft allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail astatine OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's house, The New York Times reports.
In a connection shared connected X, SFPD wrote that it responded to a petition for a occurrence investigation successful nan North Beach vicinity of San Francisco astir 7:12 AM ET / 4:12AM PT. "At nan scene, officers learned that an chartless antheral taxable threw an incendiary destructive instrumentality astatine a home, causing a occurrence astatine an exterior gate." After nan man fled connected foot, constabulary recovered and arrested him astir an hr later while responding to a business' title astir an "unknown antheral taxable threatening to pain down nan building." That business turned retired to beryllium OpenAI's office and nan taxable happened to beryllium nan aforesaid man who threw nan Molotov astatine Altman's house.
"Early this morning, personification threw a Molotov cocktail astatine Sam Altman’s location and besides made threats astatine our San Francisco headquarters. Thankfully, nary 1 was hurt," an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed in a connection to Wired. "We profoundly admit really quickly SFPD responded and nan support from nan metropolis successful helping support our labor safe. The individual is successful custody, and we’re assisting rule enforcement pinch their investigation."
As it's go much commonplace, artificial intelligence has besides go much divisive. While more and much people proceed to usage AI tools, nationalist guidance to nan encroachment of nan technology, whether successful gaming aliases customer service, is progressively negative. Altman's warnings of AI's effect connected employment, and a recent New Yorker investigation digging into his allegedly manipulative activity style astatine OpenAI, person besides raised questions astir nan CEO's salient domiciled arsenic a steward of nan technology.
