Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinat…

Violence is not the answer. Boycott is the answer. This one’s easy. There is ample evidence that Altman is a dishonest person with inordinate power that we should not trust. But the way forward to is get the board to remove him, not to throw bombs at his house. Humanity must take the high road. The way to take the high road is to stop using his products, in protest of his implied openness to mass surveillance, his mass IP theft, and his company’s opposition to liability for their actions. When people stop using ChatGPT, Altman will have to go; it’s simple as that. Quite possibly the COO or CFO will step in, and we (and OpenAI itself) will all be better off. The guy who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail through Sam Altman’s window seems to have been an adherent to pause/stop AI. I am entirely unsurprised and have been warning about this for a long time now. I am fine with people advocating for their preferred policies—if that includ…

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Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-04-11