AI Giants War-Game 'Day After' Catastrophe — SkimNews
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- Anthropic and OpenAI executives, along with leaders at other AI companies, are privately developing scenarios for a public and political revolt in the aftermath of a catastrophic AI event.
- The executives' most anticipated catastrophic scenario is a cyberattack that would shut down access to financial services, prompting societal and political fallout.
Why it matters: If the most powerful AI companies are privately planning for societal collapse scenarios, it signals that the industry's own leaders view the technology as carrying civilization-level risk — and that voluntary corporate planning, not regulation, is currently the primary line of defense.
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