Platformer is off Tuesday. This is a column about AI. My fiancé works at Anthropic. See my full ethics disclosure here . I.  Early Friday morning, according to a criminal complaint, a 20-year-old man threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house before driving to OpenAI headquarters and threatening to kill everyone inside. The incident came a few days after someone fired 13 rounds at the home of an Indianapolis city councilor who had expressed support for a data center project; a note left at the scene read “no data centers.” The escalating political violence over AI is terrifying, morally wrong, and completely ineffectual. The spread of AI systems, despite their growing unpopularity, will not be stopped by a few stray bullets. And among the many reasons to be alarmed by incidents like the ones we have seen over the past week is that the perpetrators seem too disturbed to understand that.…