‘A driver of political violence’: how the breakneck AI boom is fueling anti-tech extremism (opens in new tab)

Backlash against AI is taking an extremist turn, following in the footsteps of earlier techno-pessimist militants When a 20-year-old man from , authorities found an anti-In April, an Italian “nature pilled” Instagram influencer was arrested in Rome and charged with plotting a series of anti-tech attacks that took inspiration from Ted “The Unabomber” Kaczynski. Two self-described “ecofascists” that carried out a deadly anti-Muslim attack on a mosque in San Diego last month also and ’s ties to ...