AI brass war-gaming political revolt after a ‘catastrophic’ event insiders call inevitable

Senior leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are quietly rehearsing how the public and Washington could rise up against them after a “catastrophic AI event,” Axios reported on Friday. The disaster they have in mind is most likely a cyberattack that knocks out banking, the internet, or even power and water. Executives believe the first clear…