Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse

Self-replicating AI botnets could become feasible on IoT hardware within months, claims the Claude maker, if smaller models get smarter Nothing sells AI products as well as fear. Using new research, Anthropic claims that self-replicating AI worms could be just months away from spreading across vulnerable IoT devices, which would be a problem if it came true. The frontier lab published a research report Monday suggesting that AI models could eventually self-replicate without relying on datacenter hardware, with a 9-billion-parameter model successfully setting up inference on eight of the nine hardware types Anthropic tested.

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