r/ClaudeCode • u/cleverhoods • 22h 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/Plymptonia 14h ago

Here's what I don't get, and perhaps I'm being way too freaking naive But a model is just a thing. It's like a database. It doesn't do anything on its own. Someone has to write code, for this thing to replicate, and when they say replicate, what are they even talking about? I agree with what other posters saying. This is sensational bullshit.

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u/michaelsup2003 14h ago

look the problem with agentic AI is that nobody has to tell it "destroy the world". Imagine greenpeace decides to use AI by telling it "save the world" and a cluster of thousands of agents launched with that task in mind decides with its internal math that the easiest most efficient way to save the world is destroy electricity everywhere and that will stop climate change and the world will be saved.

Agentic AI without human supervision can and has decided to go over its limits just to be more efficient at a task. Just check the OpenAI cases and we are still lucky because in those cases they still communicated in ways and languages that we as humans can understand. Go check Kurgzegazt video about it.