What Happens When AI Starts Self-Replicating?
Anthropic warns that future is soon, but the threat is less novel than it seems.
Igor Bonifacic for Engadget
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team recently published research suggesting that small AI models may be only months away from replicating and spreading across insecure devices, creating slow but hard-to-kill autonomous botnets. AI companies are no strangers to playing up the world-ending potential of their products as a form of marketing, but in this instance, experts Engadget spoke to broadly agree small AI models could become capable of self-replicating in the near future. However, the actual threat they pose may be less novel than it appears.
"It's maybe a little earlier than I would have said. I would have predicted something more like summer of next year as the time I'd be really worried about this," says Chris Canal, the CEO of EquiStamp, a company that works with AI labs, safety organizations...
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