OpenAI and Anthropic are quietly rehearsing for the day after an AI catastrophe

Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are privately gaming out the political and public backlash that would follow a catastrophic AI event, most likely a large cyberattack on banking, internet access, power or water, Axios reports. Planning includes red-teaming worst-case scenarios and preparing to brief Congress quickly. OpenAI says its preparedness exercises are not treated as inevitable; Anthropic declined to comment.