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Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse

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Anthropic conjures another threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse
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Nothing sells AI products as well as fear. Using new research, Anthropic claims that self-replicating AI worms could be just months away from spreading across vulnerable IoT devices, which would be a problem if it came true. The frontier lab published a research report Monday suggesting that AI models could eventually self-replicate without relying on datacenter hardware, with a 9-billion-parameter model successfully setting up inference on eight of the nine hardware types Anthropic tested. “A r

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