{"id":7364,"date":"2026-04-29T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:25:05","slug":"anxiety-resentment-around-ai-spur-violence-against-techs-figureheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=7364","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety, resentment around AI spur violence against tech&#8217;s figureheads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 90px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876676\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u5de6\u4fa7\u7ad6\u6392 -->\r\n  <div style=\"height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876672\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"height: 500px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876680\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u53f3\u4fa7\u6469\u5929\u697c\uff08\u548c\u5de6\u4fa7\u5b8c\u5168\u5bf9\u9f50\uff09 -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-row: 3\/5; height: 750px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876678\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  \r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e6\" data-zoneid=\"5876682\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><small>Punching bags with the faces of AI founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman are placed in front of a federal courthouse in Oakland, California &#8211; Copyright AFP Karl Mondon<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thomas URBAIN<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several proponents of artificial intelligence (AI) have become the victims of violent acts in recent days, reflecting the existential dread around the emerging technology \u2014 and the public\u2019s growing resentment towards its advocates.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is among the most prominent, with someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at his home on April 10. A suspect, 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama, has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>But the violence extends beyond Silicon Valley\u2019s elite to include local policymakers, like Ron Gibson, a city councilmember in Indianapolis who had 13 bullets shot through his front door after expressing support for a data center construction project.<\/p>\n<p>Those behind the April 6 attack also left a note reading \u201cNo Data Centers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnxiety about emerging technologies is nothing new,\u201d said researcher Nirit Weiss-Blatt, whose Substack newsletter \u201cAI Panic\u201d covers the growing hostility towards artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Artificial Intelligence, though, it feels more extreme,\u201d she added, noting that Moreno-Gama was radicalized through the \u201c\u2018AI existential risk\u2019 rhetoric\u201d rather than its employment or environmental impacts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to have a broader discussion about how the \u2018extinction risk\u2019 rhetoric radicalizes the most vulnerable individuals,\u201d Weiss-Blatt said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that some edges justify violent acts is very troubling, and it needs to be condemned as strongly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The attacks against AI figureheads have no demonstrable ties to one another, nor do they claim affiliation with any shared organization.<\/p>\n<p>But Mauro Lubrano, a lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bath, said calling such actors lone wolves \u201cis actually not that accurate, because these groups are embedded in some sort of digital ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lubrano connects the recent string of violence to the vandalism of Tesla vehicles and dealerships in 2025 in response to founder Elon Musk\u2019s work with the administration of US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The recent reports of violence have led to an increased demand for physical protection among tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn recent months, we\u2019ve definitely seen a clear uptick,\u201d said Rory Moran, who oversees executive security at United Security, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese AI and technology companies, especially the big ones, they\u2019re always in the news, and when that happens\u2026 we\u2019re going to see an uptick in interest in potential attacks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Violence will not help\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n<p>The response to the violence on the Internet has been less panicked.<\/p>\n<p>Many commentators on platforms like TikTok have downplayed or justified the attacks, comparing those involved to Luigi Mangione, the suspect behind the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But some organizations advocating for limiting AI expansion, such as Pause AI and Stop AI, now worry they will be associated with endorsing violent acts against AI proponents.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Ball, a former AI policy advisor for the Trump administration, wrote in a post on X: \u201cThe rhetoric of the pause\/stop crowd is out of control and it has gotten worse with time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis rhetoric always had the potential to cause violence and now this seems to be no longer hypothetical,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Sizemore, one of the cofounders of Stop AI, said Moreno-Gama \u2014 the Molotov cocktail suspect \u2014 posted on Stop AI\u2019s Discord server to ask if he could discuss violence against AI founders.<\/p>\n<p>The server\u2019s moderators said posting about such subject matter would get him banned, and he never returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cViolence will not help,\u201d Sizemore said, instead urging people concerned about AI to opt for \u201cnon-violent actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is really my hope that this is the icebreaking moment that leads everyone to listen to the public and start trying to have the conversation we need to have,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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