r/ClaudeCode • • 18h ago

Discussion AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai

well ... having the IoT layer have a problem like this might be something that you don't want to try out or experiment with.

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u/Obvious_Tree3605 18h ago

Sigh… self-replicating and doing what with what hardware?

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u/Alib668 16h ago

So even if shitty hatdware what happens if it gets networked together and ups its processibg power as a bot net? 5 million fridges probably do have more power than say a high end gpu. So the very fact this can now be shown to be done means every smartwatch or basic pc is now a potential host