A man and a woman were arrested in an apparent shooting near OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s residence Sunday, two days after another man threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s Russian Hill home.
San Francisco police responded to the apparent shooting just before 3 a.m. A subsequent investigation revealed that a driver and a passenger had traveled past a home around the time of the “possible” shooting, police said.
Police did not provide further details and would not say whether the apparent gunfire targeted Altman or his home. The incident occurred near Altman’s home, where the passenger in a Honda sedan fired a round at the property, the San Francisco Standard reported.
Investigators pinpointed the owner of the car, identified as Amanda Tom, 25. She and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, were arrested not far away, on Taylor Street, police said. Officers served a search warrant at a home and seized three guns, police said.
Tom and Hussein were booked into jail on suspicion of negligent discharge of a gun.
“The SFPD takes crimes involving guns extremely seriously and anyone committing acts like these will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Police Chief Derrick Lew said in a statement.
The case follows the arrest of a 20-year-old Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, who police said threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman’s home just before 4 a.m. Friday, then threatened to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters on Third Street in Mission Bay about an hour later. That’s where he was arrested.
Security personnel extinguished flames at an exterior gate at Altman’s home, where firefighters found what they described as an incendiary device Friday.
An online user identified as Moreno-Gama had written widely about concerns over AI, which he described as an existential risk. He said he was concerned that AI would lead to the extinction of humanity, because AI machines were not aligned with the best interests of humans. He also wrote that tech oligarchs “appeared to lack strong morals.”
In a blog post published after the fire Friday, Altman suggested the attack was possibly connected to broader tensions and debate over AI. “While we have that debate, we should de-escalate the rhetoric and tactics and try to have fewer explosions in fewer homes, figuratively and literally,” Altman wrote.