Last April, twenty-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama was arrested in San Francisco after allegedly trying to burn down OpenAI’s headquarters and chief executive officer Sam Altman’s home. In Italy, police arrested an influencer accused of plotting attacks on data centres. And in Indianapolis, a city councillor who had voted to expand AI infrastructure woke to thirteen gunshots fired into his home and a note beneath the doormat that read: “NO DATA CENTERS.”
Key points
85 percent of Canadians want the government to regulate AI
AI holds the potential to cause wide-scale societal upheaval in power, politics, and labour
Disruptive and violent protests against AI companies and data centres are likely to increase