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Anthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate on smart devicesReuters, Guardian, CNBC detail the AI-worm warning
2 Oct 13 · 1d ago · 29 articles · 23 posts · 11 comments · 6 sources · development 2 of 6
Major outlets expanded on the Anthropic report, describing scenarios in which rogue models infiltrate smart fridges, vacuums, security cameras and TVs, spread without human help, and could in a worst case 'swarm' to attack larger hardware.
“We should aim to harden our systems to make it difficult for such replicators to spread, but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay”
Anthropic researchersAnthropic (Frontier Red Team) AI safety research unit that authored the report
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEOJacob Aron New Scientist columnistThe Register Tech news outlet
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first by Financial Times, 2d ago · also Fox News, RTE News, CNBC, Seeking Alpha, CBS News, The Decoder +3
11 more headlines
- Anthropic warns AI models could soon replicate across home devices, become difficult to shut down Fox News · 2d ago
- AI could self-replicate on commercial devices - Anthropic RTE News · 2d ago
- Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices Mastodon · 1d ago
- Anthropic warns small AI models may soon self-replicate on IoT devices Seeking Alpha · 1d ago
- "AI worms" may soon be able to self-replicate and infect smart devices, Anthropic says CBS News · 1d ago
- Anthropic study warns that small AI models could soon replicate across everyday devices The Decoder · 1d ago
- Small AI Models May Soon Be Able to Self-Replicate on IoT Devices, Anthropic Warns SecurityWeek · 1d ago
- Anthropic warns "AI worms" could soon infect smart home devices CBS News · 1d ago
- Anthropic warns AI models will soon self-replicate on their own Euronews · 1d ago
- Anthropic warns AI will soon self-replicate and spread beyond data centres Euronews · 1d ago
- Anthropic warns AI ‘worms’ may be able to self-replicate on home devices within months Washington Examiner · 1d ago
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“.. AI models could find vulnerable devices, copy themselves into those devices, and continue spreading without human help.” @reuters.com
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Anthropic projects small models could self-replicate across IoT devices by the end of 2026. https:// coywolf.com/news/productivity/ anthropic-research-warns-ai-worms-could-replicate-across-cheap-iot-devices/ # AI
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I'll say while this is not very realistic now, I believe there isn't a 0% chance of a rogue AI traversing the net and placing itself somewhere(as much as this sounds like a scene from beloved cyberpunk franchises). As models become more efficient and capable, and hardware becoming better, hosting a model should be feasible on smaller devices (by…
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The tweet is basically saying here’s this thing that all these sci-fi offer authors warned us about. Tech company goes and creates it despite it being the downfall of mankind.
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"Replicating models would be hard to shut down as there is no central switch-off point and, unlike non-AI malware, they could also figure out unfamiliar devices on their own, targeting data center processors, Anthropic warned." @reuters.com
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Anthropic: small AI models may soon be able to self-replicate on IoT devices https:// daily.dev/posts/anthropic-smal l-ai-models-may-soon-be-able-to-self-replicate-on-iot-devices-q8bcnm19z
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> Open models exist and will always exist. You will have to compete against them.Bacteria exist, and will be the last things to go extinct when the sun boils Earth's oceans away. We, multicellular life, have to compete with them.Yet, we do not give up; many us even use soap.> You are not going to convince us otherwise.What would it take to change…
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This is just more bullshit from the marketing machine in Anthropic against open weight models. Notice how they dont mention anthropic models at all?!?
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RTÉ News: AI models could self-replicate without data centres, Anthropic warns https://www. rte.ie/news/2026/1013/1595136- anthropic-ai/
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> "In our evaluations, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested... GLM-5.2 and stronger models are capable of end to end replication"It's funny, the Anthropic post is essentially saying the same thing I read today in a r/LocalLlama thread, but rephrased to make it sound bad.I think it's great that, very soon, local…
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I don't agree with point 2 on. They don't seem to want to ban open source or have much hope of doing so.Seeing if models can do damage seems more like sensible safety research.My worry about AI software doing bad things would be more the kind of people who make existing malware. The ransomware comes from criminals, not the open source community.
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Where does the intent and control come from in these fantastical scenarios?Propagation speed is also a massive factor. If it takes 200 hours to self replicate because of how slow the tokens are, the model will never propagate if the host machine is recycled every 100 hours. Also consider things like API tokens and sessions timing out.
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So all those chips? All that NVDA market cap? All not needed any more? We'll have AI capable of running on a lightbulb?Great if true. Bad for the hyperscalers, Nvidia, all the frontier labs apart from meta and Google since everyone can just run a LLM on their IoT coffee machine instead of paying someone else. Nice.
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Open models may complete these steps, so our models have been doing this for quite some time now. Better ban open models, I guess.Oh, and, does anyone else realise that what that agentic work is basically how you set up a productive VPS from scratch? How is that supposed to be frightening?
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Dario, shut up.Open models exist and will always exist. You will have to compete against them. That is a good thing for 99.99% of the world, namely the payers of tokens. You are not going to convince us otherwise.
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