OpenAI Locks Down Office After Violent Threat

With so much doomsaying over the existential threat of AI — nevermind its toll on environmental, economic, and mental health — it was perhaps only a matter of time before heated rhetoric spilled out of the internet and into the real world. Case in point, OpenAI reportedly locked down its offices in San Francisco after it allegedly received a violent threat from an anti-AI diehard.

“Our information indicates that [an activist] from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm to OpenAI employees,” an OpenAI employee wrote on Slack, according to Wired. “He has previously been on site at our San Francisco facilities.”

Though Wired didn’t identify the individual by name, the publication City Journal later reported that the group StopAI — an activist organization struggling for a pe