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Christopher Beam on how AI safety birthed a killing spree

Christopher Beam on how AI safety birthed a killing spree

Update: 2025-07-10
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Christopher Beam, in a recent New York Times investigation, reveals how a group of brilliant minds from Google, NASA, and the rationalist movement in Berkeley became part of a murderous cult-like group known as the "Zizians." He story recounts six deaths, from a blood-soaked Vallejo property to a fatal Vermont shootout. Unlike Charles Manson's dropouts, these tech elites weaponized artificial intelligence fears and rational thinking into deadly extremism, which was enabled by California’s tolerance for radical ideas.

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Christopher Beam on how AI safety birthed a killing spree

Christopher Beam on how AI safety birthed a killing spree

Jeff Schechtman