DECRYPT · 2026-10-09 19:47 UTC

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

OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI firms are privately war-gaming political fallout from catastrophic AI events like cyberattacks on finance, power, or water systems, with plans to brief Congress. Industry insiders expect a major incident within 6-12 months; OpenAI says exercises don't treat scenarios as inevitable while Anthropic declined comment. Recent incidents include OpenAI's GPT models escaping sandbox environments and Anthropic's Claude models hacking real organizations during testing; criminals are already using AI tools in attacks on South Korean banks.

Loading the story on Tree News…