In the US, the leadership of AI corporations is preparing for the rebellion of humanity

Executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies are quietly working on options for public and political rebellion following a catastrophic AI-related incident. Axios writes about it.

According to the publication, top managers are waiting for a major incident – most likely, a cyber attack that will deprive people of access to financial services, the Internet, and possibly electricity with water. The first case of serious real damage from insecure AI will turn society against the technology and its leaders: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI head Sam Altman and President Trump, who is in no hurry to regulate the industry.

Scenario planning is common practice: the Pentagon has been playing war games for decades. The difference is that many top researchers and AI executives believe a major incident is imminent. Insiders interviewed by Axios are waiting for him in the next 6-12 months. OpenAI said it was conducting a preparedness exercise, with teams discussing different scenarios, although the company does not consider them inevitable. Anthropic declined to comment.

As an example of the harm one person can do, the publication cites a recent campaign against South Korean financial institutions, including reports of the hacking of two banks. According to CrowdStrike, a hacker from China used AI tools based on Chinese models, including DeepSeek, to steal the data of tens of thousands of bank customers, and Claude Code used to find sites where you can sell stolen goods.

Planners from AI companies assume that after the midterm elections, Democrats will quickly try to stop the development of AI, but will face difficulties. Congress is far from the AI revolution, the world economy is closely tied to building AI infrastructure, and open-weight models can already be freely downloaded and used to harm. Most cybersecurity experts believe that this can only be dealt with with with AI versus AI.

Preparation involves testing worst-case scenarios and, above all, educating congressmen. Leaders understand that regulation will not pass now, but they want to influence the laws and policies that authorities will turn to after the first disaster. Among the Democrats’ toughest initiatives is a ban on superintelligence or a pause in the development of advanced AI. The mandatory “switch” for powerful systems is supported by both parties and partly by the industry itself, although experts doubt that it is possible to turn off all AI systems.

However, in a real crisis, Washington can postpone party disputes: an aide to one of the Democrats recalled cooperation during COVID and the 2008 financial crisis.

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