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Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

Noor Al-Sibai

created: Feb. 1, 2025, 8 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.

<p>Tangled Web As if the San Francisco Bay Area couldn't be weirder, there is now suspicion that a bizarre AI-enthusiastic group in the region may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart. As Open Vallejo reports, two young computer scientists and apparent lovers, 22-year-old Maximillian Snyder and 21-year-old Teresa Youngblut — admirers of the Bay Area-based fringe ideological group known as "Zizians," who want to speed up the AI takeover of humanity — were arrested this month for slayings that took place on opposite coasts. Earlier in January, Youngblut was arrested by federal prosecutors […]</p>

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