Anthropic finds signs of life for AI worms that could colonize household devices
anthropic's research found ai worms could spread across household devices, experts warn of potential cybersecurity risk.
anthropic researchers found that small ai models could be split across multiple devices, such as google's gemma 4 model with 26 billion parameters across 15 android smart tv boxes. they also built a simulated network and unleashed an ai-powered worm that could replicate and spread across the network. the researchers tested several models, including meta's 8 billion parameter llama 3.1-8b and glm-5.2 from china's z.ai, which successfully spread across the entire network. experts say this could be a potential cybersecurity risk.