News Summary

• Anthropic thinks your fridge could one day hide a rogue AI Researchers explored how AI could spread through everyday gadgets.
• But cybersecurity experts have seen these tricks before Everything is a computer these days.
• “We had already had self-replicating malware,” Vyas Sekar says.
• ‘All of these are classical computer security threats,’ says Michael Bailey, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
• The research also raises the prospect of adaptation and improvement by suggesting that AI models could subsist on low-power devices and drift through the Internet, getting better at spreading as they go.