Anthropic Warns AI Models Could Soon Self-Replicate on Smart TVs and IoT Devices Without a Data Center

Anthropic warns that small AI models may be months away from self-replicating across poorly secured smart TVs and other internet-connected devices. Its research suggests future AI worms could run on consumer hardware rather than depend on a datacenter, making them harder to shut down through a single central service. According to research published on October 12 by William Zhou and Daniel Freeman, AI agents may be able to install and run models on unfamiliar machines. Researchers stressed that they have not demonstrated a complete rogue replicator. Their findings show progress toward that threat, not an active AI malware outbreak. Anthropic Warns AI Could Self-Replicate Across IoT Devices Researchers ran Gemma4-26B-A4B...

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