Backlash against AI is taking an extremist turn, following in the footsteps of earlier techno-pessimist militants When a 20-year-old man from Texas was arrested earlier this year for allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI ’s headquarters and Sam Altman’s house , authorities found an anti- AI manifesto alongside his lighter and a jug of kerosene. It was one of a spate of attacks that has caused alarm among researchers, the tech industry and law enforcement about the rise of anti-tech extremism. In April, an Italian “nature pilled” Instagram influencer was arrested in Rome and charged with plotting a series of anti-tech attacks that took inspiration from Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski. Two self-described “ecofascists” that carried out a deadly anti-Muslim attack on a mosque in San Diego last mo