AI Firms Plan Post‑Catastrophe Playbook

Senior leaders at major AI companies are privately rehearsing scenarios for a large infrastructure‑impacting incident (cyberattack or cascading failure) and preparing coordinated public‑affairs and congressional outreach to shape the political response. Their planning assumes such an event could occur within months and that the first mover in shaping post‑crisis policy will dramatically influence regulation and industry survival. — If true, firms’ preemptive playbooks mean private companies will materially influence the first wave of AI regulation after a crisis, shaping democratic debate and emergency lawmaking.