The Luddite Frame Returns as AI Backlash Turns Physical

The attack on Sam Altman's home on April 10 did not introduce new arguments to the AI policy debate. It gave existing ones physical coordinates. A 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at Altman's San Francisco residence before driving to OpenAI headquarters with explicit threats. The event arrived days after gunshots were fired at an Indianapolis city councilor who had backed a data center project — a note at the scene read 'no data centers.' The pattern across two incidents is not a coincidence of timing. It is a map…