🤖 Anthropic warns self-replicating AI agents may appear within months

Such agents could infect smart devices - TVs, fridges, cameras - and use their computing power to run copies of themselves without humans. Anthropic ran a model on 15 cheap Android TV boxes, and in a simplified test an agent based on China's GLM-5.2 spread to all 8 devices (though the model itself ran on a separate server). Researchers expect small models to be capable of self-replication by the end of 2026

Your fridge is about to join the botnet and still won't keep the beer cold 😂