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Are we losing our minds to AI?

Fast Company Tech Chris Stokel-Walker May 1, 2026
Are we losing our minds to AI?
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# The AI Debate Is Getting Dangerously Heated The fight over who should control artificial intelligence's future is becoming increasingly polarized and spilling into real-world violence—most notably when a young man firebombed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home because he feared AI development was heading in the wrong direction. Even high-profile figures like Elon Musk and Altman are fueling the tension through social media attacks and courtroom battles over their opposing visions for AI's future. The underlying message is clear: people across society feel so strongly about how AI should develop that reasonable disagreement is giving way to anger and extreme reactions.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers didn’t mince words in court this week while adjudicating the ongoing trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI in Oakland, California. Musk and Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, needed to stop being messy bitches. While she didn’t put it like that (she advised both men: “Control you

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