{"id":235873,"date":"2026-04-26T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/openai-firebomber-was-trying-to-kill-boss-sam-altman-prosecutors\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T15:00:14","slug":"openai-firebomber-was-trying-to-kill-boss-sam-altman-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/openai-firebomber-was-trying-to-kill-boss-sam-altman-prosecutors\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI firebomber was trying to kill boss Sam Altman: prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI firebomber was trying to kill boss Sam Altman: prosecutors<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/articles\/openai-firebomber-trying-kill-boss-053238196.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-26 05:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The luxury home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was hit by a Molotov cocktail (Anna Moneymaker)<\/p>\n

(Anna Moneymaker\/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA\/Getty Images via AFP)<\/span><\/p>\n

A man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s luxury California home was trying to kill the boss of artificial intelligence giant OpenAI and in possession of an anti-AI document, US officials said Monday.<\/p>\n

The claims came as prosecutors levied federal charges against Daniel Moreno-Gama, 20, over the attack on Friday in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

The Department of Justice said Moreno-Gama\u00a0had travelled from his home in Texas to carry out the attack on Altman, whose company is behind the popular ChatGPT chatbot.<\/p>\n

“Violence cannot be the norm for expressing disagreement, be it with politics or a technology or any other matter,” said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.<\/p>\n

“These alleged actions -\u2013 which damaged property and could well have taken lives -\u2013 will be aggressively prosecuted.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say that after lobbing a firebomb at the gates of Altman’s home, Moreno-Gama fled on foot to the San Francisco headquarters of OpenAI, where he tried to smash the glass doors of the building with a chair.<\/p>\n

He “stated\u00a0that he had come to burn down the location and kill anyone inside,” prosecutors said in the federal criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

According to the complaint, when police arrived, they found Moreno-Gama with a jug of kerosene, a lighter and a document entitled “Your Last Warning” which “advocated against AI and for the killing and commission of other crimes against CEOs of AI companies and their investors.”<\/p>\n

The three-part document was allegedly authored by Moreno-Gama, and listed “names and addresses\u00a0that purported to belong to multiple\u00a0CEOs and investors.”<\/p>\n

Another part of the publication dealt with the “purported risk AI poses to humanity,” according to the compaint.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors say he ended the document, which included an admission he was trying to kill Altman, with the phrase: “If by some miracle you live, then I…<\/p>\n

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