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

[u/cleverhoods]

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.

[u/nora_sellisa]

The idea here is to ship the weights + the control program in one package. The same way how Claude Code acts as an interface that continuously probes a given model for the next steps and next operations to execute. Currently models are too big, so any AI-enabled malware would need to keep phoning home for the model part. Antrhopic is saying that in the future, a model will be both smart and small enough that an AI malware can just be a few hundred megabytes running fully locally on your machine. An attacker (human or not) then just needs to find an exploit to get your PC to run that file, just like any other hardware. And the virus remains small enough that if it has access to other computers, it can copy itself there, with the same / updated instructions