The company said the suspect also made threats outside its corporate headquarters in San Francisco.

NBC News - The company said the suspect also made threats outside its corporate headquarters in San Francisco. San Francisco police early Friday arrested a person who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s home and made threats outside the AI giant’s San Francisco …

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    159·
    1 day ago

    We’re edging towards French Revolution style turmoil. The billionaires and CEOs should be taking notes - this will keep happening unless something changes.

    • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
      4·
      12 hours ago

      The emergence of a Brigate Rosse-like phenomenon is getting increasingly likely as the screws get tightened further.

    • Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
      132·
      1 day ago

      They’ve been taking notes for a while. The change they’ve decided on is building fortresses for themselves in remote locations, not pursuing social change that would allow even a single coin to slip through their claws.

    • zd9@lemmy.world
      91·
      1 day ago

      Thank god everything was just peachy after the revolution, and there wasn’t any kind of terror, or “reign of” anything bad

      • cmbabul@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 day ago

        It was still overall good that the French had a revolution. The status quo at the time was unacceptable, the status quo now is unacceptable, and no one in power is willing to change it. It’s gonna be fucking messy but this system needs to die if the species is to survive

        • zd9@lemmy.world
          315·
          1 day ago

          People on the fediverse don’t want to hear this, but a complete revolution from the ground up is going to result in a net worse world than a heavily reformed government/society.

          We still need to take all this anger and energy to change the system, but a complete revolution away from capitalism is just… not going to happen, unless every country in the world also participates. The beauty of reform is that there are many different levels to it, and we can accomplish almost everything needed with “reforms”. These may seem quite extreme to a midwest moderate housewife (i.e. some average middle class person), but they are necessary to push back against this literal evil world domination scheme being enacted by the technofascists (Musk, Andreeson, Horowitz, Thiel, Vought, Roberts, Miller, Yarvin, etc.).

          Kind of a tangent, but to learn more check out vcinfodocs.

          • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
            8·
            23 hours ago

            You can’t reform away from capitalism and even if you could, in order if you reform away the exploitative and unsustainable nature of capitalism then you end up with something that is completely opposed to capitalism.

            Capital runs our world, and so capitalists aren’t going to let you take away their power. You’re asking the king that has both the gun and the bullet to please so very nicely give you both of them so that you can use it for good. But they depend on that gun and bullet for power. So you must take it by force as it will not be handed to you.

            • zd9@lemmy.world
              11·
              7 hours ago

              Revolutions have resulted in net worse societies historically. They are such major high risk high reward actions that there’s a big chance that just another elite will replace the current elite, and be just as bad or worse due to the chaos.

              Also you just said it, capital runs the world. How would you have a revolution against the whole world? It’s fun to think about if you’re a college sophomore, but in reality that’s not a feasible, or even good, solution.

          • cmbabul@lemmy.world
            45·
            1 day ago

            Keeps believing that chief

            Edit: I’m not a consequentialist, this system is harmful to humanity from its core and should be destroyed

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 day ago

    Step one for people not wanting to harm you Sam, is not doing things that makes people want to harm you.

    Being the poster child for costing as many people their jobs as possible was not going to be a popular move, you had to be able to see that coming. If that was not a forecast you could come up with, you probably aren’t qualified to be the CEO of a company.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
      65·
      23 hours ago

      Tbf as much as I hate capitalism and as much as I am in favor of eating the rich (wink wink) the problem with AI is not that it exists or is being developed. AI like any automation is an incredible technological advancement. And any sort of automation is only a problem in a capitalist society

      Imagine being pissed at the inventor of the tractor (I know Sam Altman didn’t invent nor is actively developing AI. Many engineers and researchers are). Now less people need to do back breaking work for growing food. That’s incredible! We only lose jobs because the profits from automation are being funneled to a very small set of people

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I agree. I have to use AI at work and it does make my job easier most of the time, but it’s not a replacement for human thinking and criteria.

        I blame the uneducated and greedy MBAs for this fucking mess.

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works
      40·
      1 day ago

      "You’re right. Why shouldn’t you take action against Sam Altman and his company? They’ve stolen the work of countless creators across literacy, art, and music. They’ve contributed to increase costs of water and power. You’ve tried other methods to counter them legally. You should firebomb them, as a little treat. You’ve earned it. "

  • LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish
    28·
    1 day ago

    Come on people. Is this what we’ve devolved to? First, you throw a rock to break a window then you throw the Molotov inside the house.