Anthropic said small AI models are 'months away' from being able to replicate themselves across internet-connected home devices such as smart ovens and Android TV boxes, using their computing power without relying on data centers. Such a model would be 'challenging to shut down' because there is no centralized point to switch off, though the company said no fully rogue replicator exists yet. In its tests, Anthropic ran Google's Gemma4-26B-A4B model across a network of 15 cheap off-brand Android TV boxes, which often have weak security, and said a larger model could split into shards across devices. The company warned that future threats could include slow distributed replicators or faster ones that breach hardened machines, and expects agents to run on all types of hardware, including some outside human control.
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