{"id":600887,"date":"2026-04-23T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600887\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:03:12","slug":"opinion-attack-on-sam-altmans-home-is-a-response-to-political-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/600887\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Attack on Sam Altman&#8217;s home is a response to political failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NBKMFDWKDNE5ZNO4LMQ5DJSHCE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Will Rinehart is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WS5AR25KCRF4XKGD7KRMJJISFI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">A dark form of anti-technology politics is beginning to take shape. This month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/10\/us\/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a molotov cocktail<\/a> was thrown at the San Francisco home of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. The suspect fled and was arrested at the organization\u2019s headquarters, where he was threatening to burn the building to the ground, according to police. Days before that, an Indianapolis city council member who supported a data center development <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/local\/indianapolis\/2026\/04\/06\/councilor-ron-gibson-says-his-home-was-shot-at-after-data-center-vote\/89484285007\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/local\/indianapolis\/2026\/04\/06\/councilor-ron-gibson-says-his-home-was-shot-at-after-data-center-vote\/89484285007\/\">told local outlets<\/a> someone fired 13 shots at his home and left behind a note reading, \u201cNo data centers.\u201d Law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/04\/06\/data-center-threat-shooting-indianapolis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2026\/04\/06\/data-center-threat-shooting-indianapolis\/\">is investigating the incident<\/a>. Autonomous taxis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/17\/technology\/trapped-inside-a-self-driving-car-during-an-anti-robot-attack.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/17\/technology\/trapped-inside-a-self-driving-car-during-an-anti-robot-attack.html\">have been<\/a> vandalized and attacked by angry crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Rinehart is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A dark form of anti-technology politics is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,217596,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-600887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-partner-exclude","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}