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Anthropic warns of self-replicating AI worm threat that doesn't need data centers to self-improve and spread (www.anthropic.com)
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[โ€“] Malica@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Specialized ones can be much smaller

[โ€“] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

If all it needs to do is basic network fracking and cross-platform polymorphism, it's reasonable to think that a local AI could propagate on a vulnerable network. It might not be lightning fast, it only needs to be persistent in finding vulns in a local network and exploiting them.