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The post Small AI Models Could Soon Self-Replicate on IoT Devices, Anthropic Warns appeared first on SecurityWeek.","Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrated that AI models with 26 billion parameters can run on cheap commercial IoT devices like Android TV boxes and potentially self-replicate across networks. Researchers tested model inference on unfamiliar hardware and found that current models make mistakes when chaining replication steps together, but expect models to reach full self-replication capability by end of 2026. Such AI worms would be difficult to shut down due to lack of central control points, though they would spread slowly and could be detected through ISP monitoring and network traffic analysis.","Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate across IoT devices within months without centralized","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.securityweek.com\u002Fsmall-ai-models-may-soon-be-able-to-self-replicate-on-iot-devices-anthropic-warns\u002F","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.securityweek.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2025\u002F12\u002Fbotnet.jpeg","2026-10-13T11:58:29+00:00","2026-10-13T14:00:12.014999+00:00",7,[17,20,22,25,28,31],{"name":18,"type":19},"Anthropic","vendor",{"name":21,"type":19},"OpenAI",{"name":23,"type":24},"Android","technology",{"name":26,"type":27},"GLM-5.2","product",{"name":29,"type":30},"Mirai","campaign",{"name":32,"type":30},"Kimwolf","839da5c1-3c34-47e2-9499-f7201640e3ac",{"id":33,"icon":35,"name":36,"slug":37},null,"AI 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