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Anthropic issued a warning in a blog post. The report describes a potential risk: AI models could spread between smart devices, including fridges and security cameras, and prove difficult to contain. It presents this as a warning, not an event that has already occurred.

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Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, depending on who you ask, the prospect of models spreading uncontrollably across household appliances is either an imminent cybersecurity risk or another case of AI companies spreading doomer-tinged hype. In a blog post published this week, Anthropic warns that small AI models could be "months away" fro … Read the full story at The Verge.

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