Anthropic thinks your fridge could one day hide a rogue AI

Researchers explored how AI could spread through everyday gadgets. But cybersecurity experts have seen these tricks before Everything is a computer these days. Fridges, washing machines, televisions, and more are now outfitted with computer chips to give them new capabilities, and manufacturers called them “smart” even before ChatGPT came out. Now, though, researchers have strung 15 cheap TV boxes together to run an artificial intelligence model, raising the possibility that the computers inside these everyday gadgets could someday help spread autonomous, AI-powered malware. On Monday Anthropic released a blog post exploring this sort of attack. Researchers at the company tested how AI models might act as computer worms, programs that move between devices and leave copies of themselves behind, among everyday household gadgets.

First reported by Scientific American. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.