An anti-AI activist in California has been missing for about two weeks, according to The Atlantic, and now his friends are scared for his safety while San Francisco police fear he could target OpenAI employees.

The activist in question, a 27 year old named Sam Kirchner, helped start the Stop AI group last year with a commitment to non-violent protest, but became frustrated and angry that the group’s efforts didn’t go quickly or far enough as he increasingly saw AI as a looming existential threat to humanity, according to the magazine’s reporting.

That eventually led to Kirchner splitting from the group and going off grid after assaulting the current Stop AI leader; city police then received calls that “warned that Kirchner had specifically threatened to buy high-powered weapons and to ki

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