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Anthropic warned that rogue \u201cAI worms\u201d are months away from the ability to self-replicate and autonomously infect user devices such as home appliances and other internet-connected devices.<\/p>\n
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic warned that self-replicating autonomous AI systems may start spreading across user devices without human intervention, akin to computer viruses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rogue \u201cAI worms\u201d may start autonomously targeting everyday devices, including Android TVs, smart appliances, cameras and other internet-connected devices with basic computing power and weak security, according to a Monday report<\/a> by researchers William Zhou and Daniel Freeman for Anthropic\u2019s Frontier Red Team.<\/p>\n Small AI models may be \u201cmonths away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices,\u201d which would be a challenging threat as it would have \u201cno centralized point to shut off,\u201d the authors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n