OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe

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The scenario they fear most is a large cyberattack—a digital break-in at massive scale—that shuts down banking or internet access, or even power and water. Executives are war-gaming the political fallout of a major AI-driven cyberattack and preparing to brief Congress fast if and when necessary.

Decrypt News Artificial Intelligence OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Rehearsing for the Day After an AI Catastrophe Executives are war-gaming the political fallout of a major AI-driven cyberattack and preparing to brief Congress fast if and when necessary. In brief Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms are privately war-gaming the political fallout of a catastrophic AI event, most likely a cyberattack on finance, internet access, power or water, and plan to brief Congress quickly. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco. Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco.

Industry insiders reportedly expect a major incident within six to 12 months, while OpenAI says its preparedness exercises do not treat such scenarios as inevitable and Anthropic declined to comment. 3 midterms, but an aging Congress, an AI-dependent economy and freely downloadable open-weight (a model whose trained parameters anyone may download) (published so anyone may download the trained model) models complicate any crackdown.