The man who allegedly threw an incendiary machine at the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is going through attempted murder and attempted arson prices, authorities mentioned Monday.
Daniel Moreno-Gama, a 20-year-old from Texas, is accused of throwing an incendiary machine at Altman’s dwelling on Friday night time, earlier than occurring to strike at the glass doorways of OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters with a chair whereas saying he needed “to burn it down and kill anyone inside,” in line with a legal grievance filed Monday by the FBI. He was arrested outdoors of OpenAI’s workplaces the night time of the incident. No one was injured.
The attack “was planned, targeted and extremely serious,” Matt Cobo, FBI San Francisco appearing particular agent in cost, mentioned throughout a information convention on Monday.
Moreno-Gama faces each state and federal prices, together with attempted murder and attempted arson on the state stage, and on the federal stage, prices associated to an unregistered firearm and attempted harm and destruction of property by the use of explosives.
He may additionally face prices associated to home terrorism, mentioned Craig Missakian, US Attorney for Northern District of California.
“If the evidence shows that Mr. Moreno-Gama executed these attacks to change public policy or to coerce government or other officials, we will treat this as an act of domestic terrorism, and together with our partners, prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law,” Missakian mentioned.
NCS is working to find out whether or not Moreno-Gama has authorized illustration.
According to the federal legal grievance, San Francisco cops discovered a doc Moreno-Gama was carrying which “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,” together with Altman. Moreno-Gama “discussed the purported risk AI poses to humanity” and wrote about killing Altman, in addition to itemizing out the “names and addresses of apparent board members and chief executive officers of AI companies and investors.”
FBI brokers raided Moreno-Gama’s dwelling in Texas on Monday, NCS affiliate KHOU reported.
“This morning, the FBI and partners conducted an operation in Texas, related to a subject in custody allegedly in connection with the attack on Open AI CEO Sam Altman’s home on Friday morning. Thank you to our agents, intel teams, and partners for the coordination,” FBI Director Kash Patel wrote on X.
In a private blog post on Friday night, Altman shared a photograph of his husband and child “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,” he wrote.
NCS has reached out to OpenAI for remark.
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