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 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 (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
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The home of Daniel Moreno-Gama is seen after the FBI raided his home in Spring, Texas, Monday, April 13, 2026. (Jason Fochtman\/Houston Chronicle via AP)<\/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, 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":"By JUAN LOZANO and LEKAN OYEKANMI, Associated Press SPRING, Texas (AP) \u2014 The man accused of\u00a0throwing a Molotov…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[116331,3408,2792,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-266057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-molotov-attack-on-altman","9":"tag-openai","10":"tag-sam-altman","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}