Suspect in attack at Sam Altman's house aimed to kill OpenAI CEO, warned of humanity's extinction from AI
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A man named Daniel Moreno-Gama was arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail (an improvised incendiary weapon) at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and later attacking OpenAI's headquarters. Moreno-Gama was motivated by concerns about AI posing an existential threat to humanity and had planned the attack in advance, as documented in a written statement found by police. Sam Altman responded by calling for reduced hostile rhetoric within the AI industry.
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Original source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/sam-altman-openai-ai-arson.html
First tracked: April 13, 2026 at 08:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%