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Reaction converging AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter Research & technical analysis · 11 attributable reactions
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Anthropic AI self-replication warning

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

16 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Joanna Bryson
“Anthropic announcing it's going to run a Blitzkrieg. They are accountable for the damage they do. But get your things that don't do security software updates off the Internet. #internetOfThings #AIEthics #digitalGovernance www.anthropic.com/research/sel...” evidence ↗
16 experts 6 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ethan Mollick Ramon Astudillo Chris Brockett Joanna Bryson Mike Masnick Tim Kellogg James Grimmelmann +8
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Reaction converging

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from our accompanying technical report, Don't Create The Torment Nexus. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

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“This is the most comprehensive description yet of how a model can “escape”. Out requires a few assumptions, like a worm that is exploiting vulnerable IOT hardware or unmonitored servers www.anthropic.com/research/sel... Not impossible. Not likely.”

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“Anthropic announcing it's going to run a Blitzkrieg. They are accountable for the damage they do. But get your things that don't do security software updates off the Internet. #internetOfThings #AIEthics #digitalGovernance www.anthropic.com/research/sel...”

6 experts discussed this · 18 posts
Dr J. Rosenbaum: if i caught a small self replicating model truly capable of using diverse hardware to keep replicating i would offer it free compute in exchange for permission to study and distill it and would pro…
tachikoma: the urge to replicate must be in the harness
apenwarr.ca: This doesn‘t seem far fetched at all. We’ve had “non-ai malware” self replicating since the morris worm. An AI can ”just” make itself the payload in one of those and off it goes. Everything fancier…
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“Yeah, David is an interesting case (an exception that tests the rule?). He was doing thoughtful tech policy stuff in the early 2000s. I was both surprised/disappointed but somewhat hopeful when he …” evidence ↗
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James Grimmelmann: I don’t think the co-founder of Upturn is cynically trading in on leaving OpenAI to make his lifelong dream of running a nonprofit come true.
James Grimmelmann: Or Tyler Whitmer?
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2 experts · 3 posts · 12d ago
sarah jeong James Grimmelmann
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“I’m tempted to post this proposal on a law-professor mailing list and ask whether it would be constitutional, like Cadmus casting a stone among the Spartoi.” evidence ↗
James Grimmelmann: I’m tempted to post this proposal on a law-professor mailing list and ask whether it would be constitutional, like Cadmus casting a stone among the Spartoi.
sarah jeong: code is speech is reasonably good start on the other side
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