> You can easily get death threats if you're associating yourself with AI publicly.

That's a pretty hefty statement, especially the 'easily' part, but I'll settle for one well known and verified example.

I upvoted you, but wouldn't “verified” exclude the vast majority of death threats since they might have been faked? (Or maybe we should disregard almost all claimed death threats we hear about since they might have been faked?)

Is it that hard to believe? As far as I can tell, the probability of receiving death threats approaches 1 as the size of your audience increases, and AI is a highly emotionally charged topic. Now, credible death threats are a different, much trickier question.