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The Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman's house last week underscored a growing worry for CEOs: staying safe at home.
The incident on Friday outside the OpenAI chief's San Francisco residence shows how business leaders can be targeted beyond fortified corporate offices, security veterans told Business Insider.
"This attack is just shedding light on the fact that you're even more vulnerable outside of the office," said Don Aviv, CEO of Interfor International, a security consultancy.
Safety nets — including bodyguards and drivers — that once largely covered execs on the clock are now expanding to cover more of their private lives. The attack on Altman's home will likely accelerate that push, observers said.
Read more about how some CEOs are doubling down on security at the link in our bio.
Story by Tim Paradis and Dominick Reuter
(Credit: Getty Images)
samanthadlcruz
they should be afraid to fly in their private planes and board their private yachts too.
ellopoppett
I guess I’m building a fusion power plant for this guy.
enderite
Donfolstar
It would be a real shame if there was a big rush to hire security forces and someone used that as a way into their homes.
NetProfit
When there is no accountability for the richest ans most powerful, there is little recourse outside of violence. If we don't all play by the same rules, then we have to bring them back down to our level in ways we can control
TheFastpaws
Should have waited till he was outside to shoot.
TouchMyInfection
CelestialSea
Awww is someone starting to face the consequences of their own actions?
Ivain
Here's a simple trick to saving millions on security measures: Pay your employees a living wage.
MagnumRadhard
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hotaru251
they really not gonna liek the future where people cna 3d print tiny drones w/ poison or explosives atatched to em.
SavageDrums
I want every CEO to feel fear, constantly.
Doggowhisperer23
FlintNorth44
StrandedonEarth
Yay, more jobs in the private security sector!
/s?
mikea77
Until thay are paying proportially for security what the rest of us are paying for healthcare and other vital living expenses, may they never rest.
Sleepsintrees
Shame.
stultusaur
“It’s afraid!!!!!”
FaecalJacksonPollock
MFW CEOs fear for their lives:
bananabonanza3
Gosh I hope to god this is a growing trend. People should be furious about all the heinous shit billionaires are doing— chucking Molotovs and burning down factories is the very least we should be doing, but it’s a good start
SpeedBeetle
Nobody will be safe until everyone is safe. Viva Luigi!
Billis75
Insmnyk
It’s almost like they know how much they screw over tons of people and know how much they have taken from us and that we may not be at the guillotine stage of things…yet, but that we aren’t as far from it as they’d prefer.
2774
I disagree on certain points.
There is mass extraction.
Re: guillotine - even the Jan6 useful idiots had gibbets. In the US, hanging has a long standing tie to treason. It also has a long history with the racists who were supposed to have been crushed after our Civil War.
evilspock
More bodyguards... or, hear me out: maybe stop being a monster? Maybe stop shoving AI down everyone's throat? Good products become popular through word-of-mouth, not by being forced on us constantly.
bananabonanza3
Yes, but that would require them taking risks. Billionaires don’t like that— have you SEEN modern Hollywood? All safe bets, watered down schlock that appeals to everyone. (/s, ofc, but it’s how they think)
resolved
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Hatsodoom
Good, make them afraid.
Goldensands
azgrak1
If they only did good things with all their money. If you’re worth 50 billion and say build a children’s hospital for a billion is your day to day life affected at all by only being worth 49 billion? They actively choose to not be good human beings.
StarscreamAndHutch
Make them spend money on being afraid
ExTechOp
The problem of course is, once they isolate themselves from society, they will become even crazier than before. Hopefully, more of the Howard Hughes kind of crazy than the Issei Sagawa kind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho">d_Hughes">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa
livingonagiantfireball
Killing a few would help
delecti
There should be no billionaires. There are two ways to achieve that, and the peaceful way is for them to stop being billionaires.
livingonagiantfireball
They wont, and thats why they push for mass surveillance so its hard to not get caught, we just havent reached the tipping point yet where people dont care to get cought, they only have to give a living wage
Targe0
This will just cause them to move to private islands, or fortified compounds.
Or to penthouse apartments at the top of skyscrapers that have private keyed elevators.
Issues with security are only issues if you don't have the money to afford to make them go away.
neithermenoryou
Skyscrapers like that would be far less safe for them because once on fire rescuing them becomes much harder, and normal people generally can't afford living in the lower floors anyway. Most skyscrapers in NYC are mostly empty and only being used as tax benefits by foreign business people. Them moving to islands would be safer, but there are a limited amount of them close enough to where those assholes prefer to live so less likely in general.
Targe0
With enough money they can make their own islands anywhere.
neithermenoryou
Very few CEOs have that kind of money to throw around.
Targe0
And the ones that can are the main targets, because they are the billionaires.
ArchaeoEejit
Do you think 'CEO' stays in 'penthouse' because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
Targe0
No, because like always they don't want to have to see nor interact with the “Filthy” poors.
Just like the Nobility of old did.
They don't want the rest of us tainting their world with our lack of money and compassion for others.
ArchaeoEejit
Targe0
Nar, they would simply be somewhere else in the Universe with Earth 2.0 with Humanity 2.0 that isn't so fucked up as us.
FussyZeus
Also worth noting that buying paid security people only really works as long as their money is good. You don't need to sell a security guard a sandwich. You don't need to serve cops. You don't need to do home repairs for bootlickers.
You don't need to do anything illegal to get on this train, just cut them the fuck off. All of it, all the way to the bottom.
Targe0
That's easier said than done.
As if you are struggling and someone offers you enough money to ensure your family will never have to struggle again. That's not so easy to say no to in practice.
FussyZeus
For sure, and everyone will have to make their own calculus on that front. I specifically avoid working at companies that contribute to surveillance capitalism, and I refuse at point to do IT work for businesses that fly certain flags or say certain things. I'm not going to change the world alone but I'm privileged enough to be able to refuse money from assholes, and so I do, and I encourage anyone else who can to do the same. At time of comment, they can't force you to participate.
Targe0
They can't force you directly on, but they can rig the system so much that you have little choice other than to participate.
Hexidimentional
The bell riots have begun
2774
You must be thinking of a different timeline, friend.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots
Hate to say it - but we are living this. Present time, present day.
Hexidimentional
i'm looking forward to the part where we murder all the capitalists
SleeperXib
A little late but, I'll accept it.
MaverickTitan
Next stop: The Butlerian Jihad!
EnigmaticEmpress
They'll do anything but pay people enough to live.
BendadickCumabatch
OpenAI is paying 200k+ for starting salary for machine learning roles. They do not have a minimum wage class of worker (except for outsourced 3rd world training and support)
nation543
And what, pray tell, does a machine learning role require for qualifications? Is there a possibility that somebody with only a high school diploma could get that job? No? Then what you say is bunk, and doesn't matter. Get a grip on reality, come down from that high house in the clouds and learn what the average worker's life really is.
TripleDane
wow if we ignore all the other issues then at this very cherry picked argument they are good.
Lets ignore the stolen trademarked sources for their AI
Lets ignore The politician in their pockets.
Lets ignore their business modelins is stealing other popels effort so they cant be paid for it
Because they pay their workers...
Goldensands
This is for you
MechKelly
Didn't think this one through did ya?
cmdshift3
And every one of them is a class traitor
Eyeetsass
I bet they also taste like pork.
Eyeetsass
Are we pretending their open AI model wasn’t built on the backs of trademarked materials whose creators weren’t compensated at all? Are we pretending destroying towns with data centers isn’t them? That the techbros aren’t behind the deregulation that has unemployed millions? OpenAI is bloody as fuck.
stillnodog
Do you, eh, do you not consider people in the 3rd world people…?
textilelover
200K for salaries for workers who are putting other workers out of work...
SirenBrick
They aren't salaries either, they are fulfillment contracts worth about 200k a year to start. They get a min wage payout and a bonus if they complete an impossible and immeasurable task within the allotted (usually 5 year time frame). It is a $1-2 million dollar 5 year contracts, not a stable $200k a year job.
YuffieK
Maxims 49 & 50: Every client is one missed payment from becoming a target.
Every target is one bribe away from becoming a client.
75townecoupe
I love the Schlock Mercenary comics!!
2774
https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_of_Maximally_Effective_Mercenaries
I wish I could give you an *ominous hum*
Cearnaigh
I wish several CEOs got a firsthand presentation of said ominous hum.
2774
Luigi is alleged to have used a sound suppressor.
YuffieK and I are referencing Schlock Mercenary, a webcomic which ran for 20 years. Sergeant [usually] Schlock used a Plasgun which emitted an ominous hum.
To wit: https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-03-15
Cearnaigh
I know. I had been reading Schlock since shortly after it came out. Didn't actually know it concluded quite a while back, had lost interest way before then.
I specifically would like them hearing their impending doom by hilariously oversized beam cannon that takes a moment to charge up.
75townecoupe
The final arc was excellent