if you care and worry a lot about ai safety and the possibility of it causing extinction, as i do, you should see the obvious impacts attempted terrorist violence against ai labs has.

- extreme public sympathy for sam altman and openai
- a sentiment shift against ai safety and people who talk about it publicly
- delegitimization of political agendas involving ai risk
- very likely imminent increases in security and government support of openai and lab employees more generally

absolutely none of these things actually advance the agenda of a safe good outcome from artificial superintelligence. this is wildly counterproductive. and if someone had actually gotten hurt or died, all of these outcomes would be even significantly worse, and the pace of progress would be minimally different at the most.

this is very obvious to anyone sane who's thought about this for ten fucking seconds. believing in and worrying about ai risk absolutely does not imply you should commit terrorism. so please don't fucking do it.

and additionally to others, please stop saying shit like "if you really took this seriously you would be committing terrorism", because it's blatantly fucking untrue and the only outcome you can have there is confusing insane unstable people into committing violence .