Lawyer Cites Mental Crisis in Altman Case
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The 20-year-old Texas man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was experiencing “an acute mental health crisis,” his attorneys said, calling an attempted murder charge unjust, Isaiah Poritz reports.
“This case is a property crime at best. No one was injured,” said Diamond Ward, a San Francisco public defender representing Daniel Moreno-Gama.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said the attack was an attempt to kill Altman for his AI work, pointing to documents Moreno-Gama wrote detailing his hatred for the technology. Federal ...
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