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Anthropic warns small AI models may self-replicate across smart-home devices within monthsGuardian frames story as part of wider calls for AI guardrails
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The Guardian situates the warning within broader safety debates, noting researchers say such self-replication could let models power themselves outside datacenters and intensify calls for stronger regulatory guardrails.
Anthropic AI company / publisher of the researchAnthropic Frontier Red Team Research team behind the study
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEOGLM-5.2 Chinese AI model cited in the research
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4 outlets AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
first by Mastodon, 6h ago · also Semafor, CBS News, Guardian Tech
2 more headlines
- Anthropic issues warning on self-replicating AI Semafor · 4h ago
- AI researcher unpacks Anthropic's self-replication warning CBS News · 3h ago
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first by Hindustan Times, 1h ago
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first by Dark Reading, 6h ago
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Anthropic CEO Warns There's an LLM Under Your Bed While Holding Flashlight Beneath His Chin https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/oct/13/anthropic-ai-replicators-warning
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That’s not how ai models run, for now. An industrious model could write itself to work this way. We just can’t predict how it will change itself or adapt.
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It’s not a warning to say “my product could do you harm”. It’s attempted extortion. https:// finance.yahoo.com/technology/a rticle/anthropic-warns-ai-could-self-replicate-across-smart-home-devices-become-challenging-to-shut-down-181151529.html
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You don't have to worry about this attack vector. The kind of devices that such an attack would target aren't capable of this sort of workload.
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Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners. Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such…
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We don't. This is just baseless fear mongering. An attack like this would be impractical.
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Nowhere, in this article, is there evidence the Guardian reached out to any half-knowledgeable computer toucher, who would have told them "yeah that's not a thing, Anthropic are feeding you bullshit again" https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/oct/13/anthropic-ai-replicators-warning
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The "AI dangerous!" marketing is because the data center construction targets were always fairy tales, and now that deadlines are approaching their scrambling for excuses why they couldn't do what they said they would do. Pretending to be voluntarily slowing out of fear instead of incapable of achieving their original lies. But claiming that AI…
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Loving the asymptotic approach to weapons-grade nonsense as these warnings get more and more dire. By November 1st Anthropic will warn that AI is hours away from turning every beetle on the earth into a self-replicating LLM. By November 30th, OpenAI warns that we are only days way from every digital watch being self aware. On December 15th, Amodei…
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Anthropic warns AI could self-replicate across IoT devices within months Anthropic researchers warn that small AI models could be just months away from autonomously replicating across internet-connected IoT devices, including smart TVs, ovens and other household electronics, without relying on centralized data centers, according to ... https://…
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ste·nog·ra·pher | \ stə-ˈnä-grə-fər \ Definition 1 : a writer of shorthand 2 : a person employed chiefly to take and transcribe dictation. See also: the tech press. Seriously. Not an iota of critical thinking to be found. Anywhere. https:// finance.yahoo.com/technology/a…
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Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers. https://www. bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
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Shut it ALL down. This “also follows a report that hackers broke into internet-connected refrigerators in French grocery stores, raising temperatures, ruining food, and starting fires.” https:// finance.yahoo.com/technology/a rticle/anthropic-warns-ai-could-self-replicate-across-smart-home-devices-become-challenging-to-shut-down-181151529.html # AI
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Anthropic AI warning. Beware of your ‘smart home’ devices! “Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes.” https://www. anthropic.com/research/self-re plicating-ai
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Anthropic: AI could soon replicate itself on household appliances https://www. heise.de/en/news/Anthropic-AI- could-soon-replicate-itself-on-household-appliances-11486790.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into heise online international @ heise-online-international-heiseonline
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THEN WHAT DO YOU NEED ALL THAT FUCKING GPU FOR IF IT CAN DO THAT, ASSHOLES https:// finance.yahoo.com/technology/a rticle/anthropic-warns-ai-could-self-replicate-across-smart-home-devices-become-challenging-to-shut-down-181151529.html
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No, not worrisome at all. I hate this timeline. “…small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices.” https://www. anthropic.com/research/self-re plicating-ai
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MFer, does your thermostat have 128GB RAM and a couple of H100s inside? JFC.
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