AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Left · Published: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:55:04 GMT

Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrailsAnthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model. Continue reading...

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The same story across the political spectrum (15 sources)

Left: Anthropic warns AI ‘worms’ may be able to self-replicate on home devices within months — www.washingtonexaminer.com
Left: Anthropic warns rogue AI agents may ‘self-replicate’ to hijack everyday devices — www.ft.com
Center-Left: Companies are building with AI — and exposing new security risks — www.axios.com
Left: A golden age of corporate profits — www.axios.com
Center: Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices — www.cnbc.com
Center: Apple unveils new smart home devices that showcase upgraded Siri AI — www.theguardian.com
Center: Meta rolls out new frontier AI models to rival Anthropic and OpenAI — www.washingtonexaminer.com
Center-Left: The people who don’t want their AI chatbots to die when they do: ‘I can’t have the switch turned off’ — www.theguardian.com
Right: AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’ — www.theguardian.com

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