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The company says AI models may be mere months away from being able to copy and spread themselves onto internet-of-things devices such as smart ovens and TVs, making them difficult to stop should they decide to carry out cyberattacks. Anthropic announced this week that small AI models are just months away from being able to self-replicate themselves on internet-of-things devices such as smart ovens and TVs. That matters because today’s AI models operate in data centres, where the companies that own them can pull the plug if something goes wrong. A model scattered across thousands of poorly secured gadgets in homes and offices would have no such off switch. Anthropic says the cyberthreat posed by self-replicating AI is an unintended consequence of progress elsewhere. “The capabilities that make AI models generally powerful coding agents also generalize to cyber tasks, including autonomous replication,” the company said in a statement. Anthropic predicts a future “awash with agents running on all types of hardware, including some that aren’t under human control”. https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/13/anthropic-warns-ai-will-soon-self-replicate-and-spread-beyond-data-centres

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