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Sam might build a nothingburger so tasty it destroys the Earth

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/13/ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house/ - blog post

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Sources:

• Statement by the San Francisco Police Department https://x.com/SFPD/status/2042651827905380461
• Here is a photo of my family https://blog.samaltman.com/2279512
• Sam Altman May Control Our Future — Can He Be Trusted? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted
• If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All https://amzn.to/3Q6Xafn (UK) https://amzn.to/4tKQPoq (US)
• Roko's basilisk https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
• OpenAI built a text generator so good, it's considered too dangerous to release https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/17/openai-text-generator-dangerous/
• SFPD Arrests Suspects involved in Shooting #26-044 https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/news/sfpd-arrests-suspects-involved-shooting-26-044

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• OpenAI's Strawberry will turn you into paperclips any day now https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/07/13/openais-strawberry-will-turn-you-into-paperclips-any-day-now/
• Sam Altman: The superintelligent AI is coming in just 'a few thousand days'! Maybe https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/25/sam-altman-the-superintelligent-ai-is-coming-in-just-a-few-thousand-days-maybe/
• AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-doomsday-and-ai-heaven-live-forever-in-ai-god/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAJIew3FAJ8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• OpenAI fights the evil scheming AI! — which doesn't exist yet https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/18/openai-fights-the-evil-scheming-ai-which-doesnt-exist-yet/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZiy1L_vgE4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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