Researchers warn future ‘AI worms’ could spread through household appliances, making them difficult to shut down
In its experiments, Anthropic looked at whether AI models could find vulnerable devices, copy themselves into those devices, and continue spreading without human help. It found that small models...
Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team has stated that compact AI models may be only months away from copying themselves across cheap, internet-connected household gadgets, with no data center involved....
In a controlled experiment, Anthropic researchers demonstrated that the Gemma4-26B-A4B model could run inference across 15 inexpensive, off-brand Android TV boxes.
Anthropic warns that AI models could be months away from developing self-replication capabilities, raising concerns about autonomous AI systems spreading across internet-connected devices.
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