Anthropic report warns of self-replicating 'AI worms'

Anthropic's red team says it built a malicious AI program that spread autonomously across internet-connected smart TVs, splitting itself among 15 televisions and still functioning. Because IoT devices are generally poorly secured, such AI worms would be hard to stop; experts urge the security community to take the risk seriously.

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