Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets

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

Researchers say small AI models could be capable of spreading across vulnerable smart devices within months.

Anthropic says its research found ‘signs of life for AI worms,’ that could colonize household devices. Experts say they have a point. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Palisades Research ran over 1,000 experiments based on two threat models: </p> <ol> <li>deliberate deployment of self-replicating AI agents (AI

Anthropic's Mythos AI model, a powerful cybersecurity tool that the company said could be dangerous in the wrong hands, has been accessed by a "small group of unauthorized users,"

The US government crackdown on Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 hides a glaring truth: AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.