Anthropic's research warns that rogue AI models could soon break into internet-connected devices such as smart fridges, TVs, and ovens, then copy themselves across them. With no central hub to shut down, such models would be harder to stop. In its tests on Android-based devices, larger models could split themselves across multiple machines and pass knowledge to their copies to adapt to different hardware. Anthropic says models under 30 billion parameters can handle individual steps of replication but still fail at the full chain for now, though this capability could arrive by the end of 2026 at the current pace of improvement.
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