{"id":206375,"date":"2026-04-27T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/ai-the-backlash-turns-violent\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T12:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:10:15","slug":"ai-the-backlash-turns-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/ai-the-backlash-turns-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: The backlash turns violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/tech\/ai-backlash-turns-violent\">AI: The backlash turns violent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theweek.com\/tech\/ai-backlash-turns-violent\">https:\/\/theweek.com\/tech\/ai-backlash-turns-violent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-27 11:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"theweek.com\">theweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article with an unordered list of key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Increasing incidents of violence against AI stakeholders, such as the attempted arson attack on Sam Altman&#8217;s mansion.<br \/>\n&#8211; Concerns raised by AI creators about the technology&#8217;s potential to eliminate white-collar jobs, concentrate power, and raise resource consumption \u2013 which have influenced public backlash.<br \/>\n&#8211; Public sentiment against AI is growing, with only 26% of Americans perceiving it positively. The issue has turned violent, according to Martin Baccardax.<br \/>\n&#8211; Social media has become a platform where individuals justify attacks against AI leaders, fostering a sense of heroism around figures like Daniel Moreno-Gama.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Stop AI&#8221; movement particularly appeals to younger individuals who feel displaced by technological advances. This movement has also gained support in regions resisting AI data centers due to resource concerns.<br \/>\n&#8211; Recent community-driven responses include halting or delaying 64 billion dollars worth of data centers, with Maine set to become the first state to ban them.<br \/>\n&#8211; As ordinary people increasingly voice opposition to AI, AI executives, who have long warned about the potential dangers of their technology, seem surprised by the rising backlash.<br \/>\n&#8211; The backlash against AI is anticipated to escalate as public sentiment continues to turn against it.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI: The backlash turns violent https:\/\/theweek.com\/tech\/ai-backlash-turns-violent Publish Date: 2026-04-27 11:50:00 Source Domain: theweek.com Here is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":206376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/eKhPS8uc78Rn7Kxkaf7N2Z-2000-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206377,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206375\/revisions\/206377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}