Part of Anthropic's Claude Evolution · 7 stories · since Sep 29 · newest 5h ago
Anthropic warns AI models could soon self-replicate across smart home devicesSocial media backlash calls the warning implausible hype
3 Oct 13 2:00 PM · 2d ago · 14 articles · 9 posts · 4 comments · 7 sources · development 3 of 6
A large wave of Bluesky and HN commenters mocked the claim as contradictory, arguing that models requiring massive datacenter compute could not plausibly run on smart fridges or ovens, and suggested the warning served Anthropic's marketing or financial interests.
“bullshit. if the ai models are so lightweight they can run on a smart fridge, why the hell are they building data centers? this is nonsense.”
halleyvalentine.bsky.socialAnthropic AI company / author of the research
Dario Amodei Anthropic CEOAnthropic's Frontier Red Team Internal unit that produced the reportJacob Aron New Scientist columnistDan Goodin Ars Technica security reporter
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 5 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Washington Examiner, 2d ago · also Times of Israel, Manufacturing Business Technology, Yahoo Finance, NDTV, Telegraph India
6 more headlines
- AI models may soon be able to self-replicate across smart-home devices, Anthropic warns Times of Israel · 2d ago
- Anthropic Warns of Self-Replicating AI Worm Threat Manufacturing Business Technology · 2d ago
- Anthropic Researchers Warn That Self-Replicating Worms Could Infest These Kinds of Smart Devices Inc.com · 2d ago
- Anthropic warns AI could 'self-replicate' across smart home devices, become 'challenging' to shut down Yahoo Finance · 2d ago
- Anthropic Warns Of AI 'Worms' Spreading Across Smart Devices NDTV · 2d ago
- Anthropic warns AI models could spawn self-replicating botnets to hijack internet-connected devices Telegraph India · 2d ago
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first by Mastodon, 2d ago · also The Register
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2 outlets Anthropic Issues Warning Over Self-Replicating AI - And Says A Chinese Model Pulled It Off
first by ZeroHedge, 2d ago · also ZeroHedge News
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first by The Hacker News, 2d ago
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first by Fortune, 2d ago
What people said 5 voices · verbatim
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BREAKING: Anthropic has said that rogue AI agents may "self-replicate" to hijack smart devices such as ovens and TVs
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And can I presume that Anthropic will be liable for the cost to put right any damage done. NB whilst I have smart home devices I only connect them to the internet in a secure manner. And I don’t connect anything I don’t trust or gain significant benefit from.
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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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> 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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It's embarrassing for the community that a comment like this one - which doesn't address the content of the article at all - reaches the top.For reference, the original article is https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai.The prospect of software (or whatever one wants to call it) capable of making autonomous decisions…
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