🔥 "AI Catastrophe" Expected Within the Next Year

Many industry insiders believe a major AI incident could happen in the next 6-12 months and trigger a serious public and political revolt against AI. Axios reports that top executives at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI companies are gaming out such scenarios.

🔍 The main scenario: a large-scale AI-powered cyberattack cuts off access to financial services, takes down the internet, or even shuts off power and water. After that, the public and politicians turn on the technology and, of course, its creators.

"War games" like these are standard practice for large corporations and government agencies (the Pentagon has been running all kinds of war games for decades). But the outlet notes that many researchers and top AI executives consider a major incident inevitable.

✅ OpenAI confirmed that it runs such exercises but said it does not treat these scenarios as inevitable. Anthropic declined to comment.

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