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PublishedOctober 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Anthropic’s self-replicating AI warning is alarming deja vu

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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
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