San Francisco police arrested two people for opening fire near Sam Altman's home on Sunday, just two days after someone threw a Molotov cocktail at the same residence. When officers searched the suspects' home, they found three additional firearms. The pair was booked into the San Francisco County Jail.

Two attacks on the same house in 48 hours. The first, at 4 a.m. Friday, involved an incendiary device thrown at the exterior gate of Altman's $27 million mansion, sparking a fire. The suspect also made threats at OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. The second, on Sunday, involved actual gunfire. No one was injured in either incident.

An OpenAI spokesperson told reporters: "Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home and also made threats at our San Francisco headquarters. Thankfully, no one was hurt." The company has not commented publicly on the Sunday shooting.

This is not happening in a vacuum. Last week, a Virginia councilman who voted to approve a data center project had his house shot up with his 8-year-old child inside. The backlash against AI infrastructure and the people building it has turned from protests and petitions into actual violence. What started as angry town hall meetings is now gunfire and firebombs.

Between the attacks, Altman published a blog post reflecting on the firebombing and the broader hostility toward AI leaders. The irony is difficult to miss. Altman has spent the past year arguing that AI will create a post-scarcity economy, that robots should be taxed and the proceeds given to citizens, and that OpenAI will build tools that benefit everyone. A growing number of people are not buying it.

The motivations behind these attacks have not been disclosed by police. It is unclear whether they are connected to AI specifically or unrelated threats. But the pattern is hard to ignore. AI CEOs are now living with the kind of security concerns normally reserved for heads of state. Altman's home is surrounded by surveillance cameras. It was not enough.

The AI industry is entering a new phase where the people building the technology face physical threats alongside the legal, regulatory, and competitive ones. OpenAI is about to IPO. Its CEO's house was attacked twice in one weekend. If that does not give investors pause, nothing will.