Anthropic says small AI models may soon copy themselves onto smart devices
Anthropic warned that small AI models might soon be able to copy themselves onto poorly secured smart devices without needing a data centre. The company gave examples like smart ovens and inexpensive Android TV boxes.
This warning is based on new research from Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, which tests AI models for risky behaviors.
The team studied whether a model could find vulnerable devices, install itself, run there, and keep spreading without human help.
To show that current hardware is already capable, the team bought 15 off-brand Android TV boxes for about $55 each.
They split Google’s open model Gemma4-26B across the devices and ran it, though it worked slowly at less than half a token per second.
The researchers found that open models with 30 billion parameters or fewer can already manage many of the individual steps.
However, these models still make mistakes when trying to complete the...
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