{"id":390436,"date":"2026-04-13T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390436\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:20:08","slug":"man-accused-in-molotov-cocktail-attack-of-sam-altmans-home-opposed-ai-court-documents-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/390436\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused in Molotov cocktail attack of Sam Altman’s home opposed AI, court documents say"},"content":{"rendered":"

SPRING, Texas (AP) \u2014 The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail<\/a> at OpenAI founder Sam Altman\u2019s home in San Francisco was opposed to artificial intelligence and had list of other AI tech executives, according to court documents.<\/p>\n

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Authorities allege Daniel Moreno-Gama threw the incendiary device about 4 a.m. Friday, setting an exterior gate at Altman\u2019s home alight before fleeing on foot, police said. Less than an hour later, Moreno-Gama allegedly went to OpenAI\u2019s<\/a> headquarters and reportedly threatened to burn down the building.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, FBI agents went to Moreno-Gama\u2019s home in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where they spent several hours before leaving. He has been charged with possession of an unregistered firearm and damage and destruction of property by means of explosives.<\/p>\n

When Moreno-Gama was arrested Friday, officials found a document on him in which he \u201cidentified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,\u201d court documents say.<\/p>\n

Moreno-Gama wrote of AI\u2019s purported risk to humanity and \u201cour impending extinction,\u201d according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

Advocacy groups that have issued grave warnings about AI\u2019s risks to society condemned the violence.<\/p>\n

Anthony Aguirre, president and CEO of the Future of Life Institute, said in a written statement Friday that \u201cviolence and intimidation of any kind have no place in the conversation about the future of AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours after the attack on his house, Altman posted a photo of his husband and their toddler in a blog post addressing the threats against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally we try to be pretty private, but in this case I am sharing a photo in the hopes that it might dissuade the next person from throwing a Molotov cocktail at our house, no matter what they think about me,\u201d Altman wrote.<\/p>\n

He added that \u201cfear and anxiety about AI is justified\u201d but it was important to \u201cde-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING, Texas (AP) \u2014 The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI founder Sam Altman\u2019s home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[345,343,344,85,46,125],"class_list":["post-390436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}