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Anthropic warns AI models could soon self-replicate across smart home devicesOutlets push back on the technical plausibility of the warning
6 Oct 14 · 1d ago · 7 articles · 2 videos · 30 posts · 67 comments · 7 sources · development 6 of 6
The Register, New Scientist and The Verge published pieces arguing the self-replication scenario is technically unlikely in practice given current hardware limits, even while acknowledging some underlying signal in Anthropic's findings.
“Anthropic says its research found 'signs of life for AI worms,' that could colonize household devices. Experts say they have a point.”
Robert HartAnthropic 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 4 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Indian Express, 1d ago · also Ars Technica, Tom's Guide, Breitbart
3 more headlines
- Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices Mastodon · 1d ago
- Anthropic warns AI could soon self-replicate across everyday smart devices — here’s why it matters Tom's Guide · 1d ago
- Anthropic Warns AI Models Could Replicate Themselves Across Home Devices Within Months Breitbart · 1d ago
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first by Mastodon, 1d ago · also The Verge
1 more headline
- Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is an alarming deja vu The Verge · 1d ago
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first by New Scientist, 1d ago
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first by HN Frontpage, 2d ago
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Either your AI needs to be run in a Datacenter the size of Lichtenstein OR it can be run on your smart fridge. Pick one Anthropic, you can’t have both.
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How many other industries are allowed to repeatedly say 'boy our product sure is crazy dangerous, we shouldn't be doing what we're doing' with ZERO repercussions... https://www. theguardian.com/technology/202 6/oct/13/anthropic-ai-replicators-warning # AI # FuckAI
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It is really not that far out."Those iot devices are not powerful enough" is not the whole story.Yes, big models will not run on slow gpu's and processors this year.There are 2 things in the article: 1. Drop in a model by itself 2. Drop in a model with tools (see part: "As a sanity check")1. Assumes that the whole "system" deployed would be stupid…
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When I say limited AI worms I am not talking about a LLM model. There is no reason for the infiltration worm to understand natural language or be able to draw "art" for example. I'm more worried about an AI writing some highly specialized and stripped down semi-intelligent skeleton key that adapts to it's targets, it would just need to be smart…
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Guy who can shut it down easily right now says it'll be challenging to shut down.
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Self-replicating # malware is far from new, and I'm hopeful that all this attention on the # AI angle of it will lift baseline # cybersecurity expectations for # IoT devices https:// arstechnica.com/security/2026/ 10/anthropic-warns-small-ai-models-could-self-replicate-through-iot-devices/
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It makes perfect sense if you consider that this is yet another of Anthropic's hit pieces against open-weight models. (e.g. see https://www.anthropic.com/research/glm-5-3-and-the-spread-of... for another recent example)Step 1: Spread nonsense FUD about open-weight models.Step 2: All of the clueless mainstream media sites repost it (e.g. CNBC…
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Hmm, you made the most sensible risk. That it would be replicating to try to attempt a fruitless endeavour, resulting in a general collapse of resources rather than being able to "hide" or "escape".
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Siempre he pensado q hay un perfil de persona religiosa y un perfil de friki q se parecen mucho, sólo q el friki sabe q las fantasías en las q encuentra solaz son eso, fantasía. Bueno pues hay un perfil IA-bro que se cree sus fantasías, nivel milenaristas medievales
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NOW PLAYING == Reuters World News: Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI models | Reuters World News https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=9YtbKILn2Yw # vsn # radio # news # reuters # DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft # SupportIndependentMedia # Resist
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This makes zero sense to me. Like, ok, so you can install a low powered model on low powered hardware and do inference extremely slowly... to what end? Why would that be a useful attack at all? Assuming you've compromised this hardware wouldn't it make vastly more sense just to install regular malware? And like, in what sense would an 8B or…
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Laws and regulations will have zero impact on AI progress. The whole world is working on it now.
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Start making these people liable for all the damage caused by their creations, and watch it get shut down in an instant.
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# AI "Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices • Anthropic described how AI models could infiltrate internet-connected devices and use their computing power to run themselves and spread to other devices. • The AI model would be 'challenging to shut down,' Anthropic said in a blog post, 'since there’s no centralized…
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The IPO failures last week are not depicting a market that’s keen for a $2T Anthropic.In the bizzare world of today, rather than trying to convince folks that they have a viable business the AI labs appear fully dedicated to finding a story, any story, that lets them off the hook for tough business and financial questions they seemingly don’t have…
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Man, that sounds like a really outlandish claim. I wonder if someone could investigate whether it's true, and write down what they find - in some sort of... journal, perhaps? What would we call such a person? Some kind of... "journalist?"
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If a ransomware gang or other cyber criminal group said they were building a self-replicating worm to target smart devices and just let it out there in the wild, the authorities would likely be doing all they could to come down on them. But an AI firm, Anthropic in this case, claims that is what they are doing and that's... just fine, apparently?…
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Not to be conspiratorial or paranoid, but at this point Im pretty convinced Anthropic is going to do something wreckless with thier agents to get regulators on their side. It will probably be very bad.If you've studied the effective altruists at all, you'd know they're perfectly willing to play the trolly problem out irl if they think it will lead…
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Ooooooo, our tech is so scary and powerful, you can't stop it evah, so bow down before our might and subscribe
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Ya mean, like that Terminator movie where Skynet was the internet? https://www. tomshardware.com/tech-industry /artificial-intelligence/anthropic-warns-of-self-replicating-ai-worm-threat-that-doesnt-need-data-centers-to-self-improve-and-spread-current-deployment-is-impractical-but-could-become-a-worry-as-tech-improves
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Not only that it would be extremely slow, but there's another thing - they are talking about tokens as some omnipotent God's sent signals. It doesn't matter what the speed is if the tokens don't make sense. Let's take current king of the small models Qwen 3.8 27B. It's a good model, but it hallucinates way more than the frontier models and often…
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I can't believe this is how they are trying to sell this shitty technology, by making it a threat. Pure idiocy
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Anthropic warned that rapidly improving AI systems could soon replicate themselves across everyday devices without human help, and demonstrated the risk by setting a model loose on 15 cheap Android TV streaming boxes. Read more: https:// t.co/LQ7jBvz00F # news # finance # economics # stocks # options
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The point, which Anthropic's report makes clear but the Register for some reason did not bother to mention, is that such a capability would defeat the "you can just turn it off" model of safe LLM deployment.In particular, I've seen a lot of people say that our response to things like the Hugging Face swarm should be to prosecute whoever chose to…
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