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Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is an alarming deja vu

Global Published 14 October 2026, 20:19 · archived 14 Oct 2026

Are legions of smart devices - fridges, ovens, vacuum cleaners, lawnmowers, security cameras, and TVs - conspiring to take over the internet? No. But they could soon be unwitting hosts to self-replicating AI models that spread from device to device and prove remarkably difficult to contain. Welcome to the unsettling world of AI worms, where, […]

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