News Summary

• Anthropic created a malicious AI program that spread autonomously through internet-connected "smart" televisions.
• The program split parts of itself among 15 televisions and was still able to function by using a bit of power from each.
• Anthropic researchers said a successful AI worm would need to have more capability on less powerful devices than is possible right now.
• Their research follows a paper published by experts at the University of Toronto a few months ago, which infected a full-size computer and could spread to similar machines more rapidly than the television worm.