Anthropic Says AI Could Copy Itself Onto Your TV Box Within Months. It Ran the Demo on Fifteen $55 Boxes, Left the Doors Unlocked, and the Critics Say the Scary Part Isn't the Part It Proved

Podcast: Minds, Bodies, and Terawatts · Patrick Deglon

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research on October 13 saying small open-weight AI models may be months from self-replicating across cheap internet-connected home devices with no central point to shut off. It ran a 26-billion-parameter Google Gemma model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes at about a third of a token per second, and in a simulated network with no passwords only the Chinese open model GLM-5.2 completed the full replication chain. Outside researchers called the experiment engineered to succeed; Anthropic's own post concedes the hack step was trivial and the directing model ran on a separate server. Continue...