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The AI industry's reputational crisis

The Stanford AI Index shows that people hate AI. The attacks on Sam Altman's home show what's at stake.

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Alex Heath
Apr 14, 2026
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Daniel Moreno-Gama throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s SF home.

For months, in private conversations with founders and executives at major AI labs and big tech companies, I’ve been hearing the same concern: the public hates what we’re doing. It has been a simmering anxiety, and with this past weekend’s events and new data from Stanford, it just became impossible to ignore.

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