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Anthropic researchers said small AI models might be able to self-replicate on cheap devices such as smart ovens or lawn mowers. Forget AI slop. We might soon have "AI worms" and AI "slime mold. "In this latest instalment of AI nightmare fuel, Anthropic's researchers have discovered that small rogue AI models might — as soon as the end of 2026 — start worming their way into home devices like smart ovens, smart refrigerators, automatic vacuum cleaners, and lawn mowers. These internet-connected devices typically have "minimal security measures in place," allowing small models to feed off of their computing power and self-replicate, Anthropic's AI capabilities research team wrote in a report on Monday. This could take the form of "a slow, distributed 'digital slime mold,' living on relatively insecure compute," the researchers wrote. The team studied the behavior of small Chinese models, such as Z.ai's GLM-5.2 and Alibaba's Qwen, as well as others like Google DeepMind's Gemma4-26B-A4B. They gave a prompt to the Gemma model while running inference on 15 cheap off-brand Android TV boxes, each costing $55, and found it worked. Worms aren't new in the software world.

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