Opposition Toward OpenAI Brings Two Violent Attacks on CEO’s Home
Two incidents in four days at Sam Altman’s San Francisco residence highlight AI backlash.
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2026 – Criticism of artificial intelligence has turned violent in San Francisco after two attacks on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home within the last four days.
At about 2:56 a.m. on Sunday, San Francisco police responded to possible shots fired in Russian Hill, as first reported by The San Francisco Standard. A person in the passenger seat fired a round from the car window, according to a police report. While the car fled, a camera captured the license plate, allowing SFPD to detain 25-year-old San Franciscan Amanda Tom and 23-year-old Muhamad Tarik Hussein. According to a police report, the police seized three firearms from the suspects as they were booked for negligent discharge.
This was the second violent incident on Altman’s house, with the first happening just two days earlier on Friday. A 20-year-old Texas resident Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama threw a Molotov cocktail — a bottle containing a flaming rag and a flammable liquid — at the property’s gate just two days earlier. Moreno-Gama, a critic of AI, was arrested later that day and charged for suspicion of attempted murder, arson, possession or manufacture of an incendiary device, and more.
