Original title: The "Rational" Conclusion
Original author: ALEXANDER CAMPBELL
Translated by: Peggy, BlockBeats

Editor's note: At 3:45 AM on April 10, a 20-year-old threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's residence, then walked approximately three miles to OpenAI headquarters and threatened to set it on fire.

This attack quickly shook the tech and investment circles. It is not just about individual safety but has pushed a set of extreme narratives, which have long remained in texts and communities, into reality.

Starting from the highly certain judgment that "AI will lead to human extinction," through the reasoning that "risks must be minimized at all costs," this logic gradually slips towards the justification of real-world actions. When a worldview continually reinforces its narrative of "survival-level threat," and reconstructs moral priorities based on this, the boundaries of action are also redefined — previously low-cost speech starts to become executable.

This article reviews the evolutionary path within the AI doomsayers community: from risk judgments constantly escalating through a "purification spiral," to moral judgments against tech builders, and finally to simplifying complex realities into decision-making models like the "trolley problem." These seemingly rational deductions ultimately converge into a self-consistent yet dangerous framework of thought: as long as the outcome is defined as "saving humanity," the means can be constantly expanded.

In this sense, this incident is not isolated. It is more like a stress test that has arrived prematurely — testing not the technology itself, but when the narratives, beliefs, and actions surrounding the technology begin to lose their constraints.

Here is the original text:

Who is the arsonist?

At 3:45 AM on Friday, a 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's residence. He

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