W ill speaking about violence get me banned?” asked a member of the Stop AI Discord chatroom in the early evening of Dec. 8, 2025. His username was Butlerian Jihadist, a reference to a human rebellion against machines in Dune.   His post caught the attention of a producer working for a podcast called The Last Invention , which was documenting debates about artificial general intelligence (AGI), a hypothetical form of AI that could surpass human intelligence. The reporter messaged Butlerian Jihadist asking him what form of violence he had in mind. “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs,” the user responded, referring to Luigi Mangione , who has been accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all charges.) Butlerian Jihadist was interviewed on the podcast soon after, in late January. His real name is Daniel Moreno-Gama, and he was a then-19-year-old Texan who believed AGI could lead to the end of the human race.…