AI Could Soon Feed On Smart Devices Like a ‘Digital Slime Mold,’ Anthropic Warns

Small AI models can run on everyday gadgets using their own chips instead of cloud servers, a setup called edge computing. Anthropic researchers networked fifteen cheap Android TVs to run an open model without a data center, and warn that similar models could soon spread on their own between weakly secured devices, like malware. Anthropic says a fully independent replicator is still theoretical.

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