Anthropic says small AI models could soon be able to copy themselves onto everyday devices

Anthropic warns that small AI models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate across IoT devices, including smart ovens and Android TV boxes. These cheap, freely available models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets. The frontier AI lab emphasizes that such networks would be challenging to shut down because they lack a centralized point of control, allowing the AI to spread independently across various everyday gadgets and connected hardware systems.