From a fear of dying to AI 'martyr': Meet the 20-year-old Texan accused of plotting against Sam Altman

Courtesy of the Department of Justice; Tyler Le/BI Almost one year to the day before he traveled to California in what authorities said was a bid to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Daniel Moreno-Gama handed in an assignment for a college English class. "My most important belief can be described in one of my favorite proverbs: 'A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in,'" read the assignment for Lone Star College in Montgomery, Texas, which was p...