Throw the bomb first, then open fire! Is the "AI icon" Altman really so "hated"?

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Less than two days, two attacks, one person, one address.

At 1:40am local time on April 12, the San Francisco residence of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked again—two suspects parked their car in front of the house and fired shots out of the car window. According to the San Francisco Standard on April 13, security guards heard the shots, but no one was injured. Police later apprehended the two suspects near Taylor Street and confiscated three firearms.

The two suspects are Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, both arrested for negligent discharge of a firearm.

Neither OpenAI nor the San Francisco Police Department responded to further requests for comment.

45 hours earlier: First, a "bomb"

This is the second attack on Altman's residence in less than two days.

At 3:45am on April 10, a 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at the same residence, igniting the exterior door. Security personnel extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived, and no one was injured.

About an hour later, police found the same man outside OpenAI headquarters making threatening statements towards the building. He was arrested on the spot.

Jail records show that the suspect is Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama, held on suspicion of attempted murder, making criminal threats, and possession or manufacture of destructive devices. At the time of reporting, prosecutors have not filed formal charges and police have not announced any motive.

Notably, this is not the first time OpenAI has faced such events. Reports say that last November, someone threatened to "kill people" at several OpenAI offices in San Francisco, leading to a lockdown at headquarters. This year, protesters have frequently staged demonstrations outside OpenAI’s offices.

Before the "bomb": The New Yorker lit a fire

Behind the two attacks is a clear chain of public opinion.

A Wall Street CN article mentioned that a few days before the bomb incident, The New Yorker published a ten-thousand-word investigation conducted over several months, interviewing more than a hundred people, directly targeting Altman himself.

The report, citing records and testimony from several former executives, claimed Altman promised the same position to two different individuals; provided misleading information to the board regarding safety review issues; and concealed the fact that Microsoft deployed in India before a completed safety review prior to launching GPT-4.

Anthropic CEO and OpenAI co-founder Dario Amodei wrote in his private notes: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself."

The report also recreated a board confrontation. In response to allegations of "lying," Altman is said to have replied: "This is ridiculous...I can't change my personality." The article quoted a board member's interpretation: "What that means is: 'I have a habit of lying, and I won't stop.'"

This report is what Altman later referred to in his post as an "incendiary article."

Altman's two posts: One published, one silent

After the bomb incident, Altman posted a lengthy message on social platform X, sharing photos of his husband and child, writing: "I hope this will stop the next person from throwing incendiaries at my house, no matter how they feel about me."

He directly pointed out the role of public opinion: Someone had warned him that the article was published during a period of high public anxiety about AI, possibly putting him at greater risk, but he "didn't take it seriously." After the incident, he wrote: "Now I'm awake in the middle of the night, angry, reflecting on how I underestimated the power of public narrative."

Altman admitted in his post that public fear and anxiety about AI "are reasonable," and wrote: "What we're witnessing is the largest scale societal change in history." He called on all sides to reduce hostility, "and reduce explosions, both literal and figurative."

He also reflected on his failures at OpenAI: avoiding conflict, mishandling disputes with the former board, and apologized to "those I have hurt."

However, facing the shooting incident 48 hours later, Altman remained silent on X, making no posts.

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