AI model ‘self-replication’ is only months away, Anthropic says — and it doesn’t even need a data center to happen

Anthropic warns that self-replicating AI worms could become feasible by the end of the year

These AI worms could hijack hardware ranging from IoT devices to data centers

Smaller models are already capable of adapting to unfamiliar hardware and self-replication

Anthropic has warned self-replication could become feasible for small AI models on internet-of-things (IoT) devices in just a matter of months.

This could be a big problem because a self-replicating AI model does not have a centralized off-switch and could…