AI model ‘self-replication’ is only months away, Anthropic says — and it doesn’t even need a…
- Anthropic warns that self-replicating AI worms could become feasible by the end of the year
- These AI worms could hijack hardware ranging from IoT devices to data centers
- Smaller models are already capable of adapting to unfamiliar hardware and self-replication
Anthropic has warned self-replication could become feasible for small AI models on internet-of-things (IoT) devices in just a matter of months.
This could be a big problem because a self-replicating AI model does not have a centralized off-switch and could hop networks to discover other IoT hardware to further replicate without human control.
Anthropic warns these AI worms could use multiple compromised IoT devices to run inference while carrying its model weights with it as it reproduces. IoT devices would be a prime target for this worm because they are “cheap and typically poorly defended,” the company says.
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