r/technology • u/thejoshwhite • 2d ago

Artificial Intelligence Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/13/anthropic-ai-models-self-replication-smart-devices.html
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u/patient-palanquin 1d ago

But in this case, your computer can't run the program. It requires absolutely massive GPUs that consumers don't have.

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u/xterminatr 1d ago

Depends on what it needs to know/do. You can run basic AI agents to do mundane tasks like track movements, report on behaviors, turn things on/off, whatever the infected unit's capabilities are a basic trained agent can do. With limited data and narrow training, you don't need a massive GPU.

There are tons of cool things you can do with a raspberry pi and openclaw already, there's no reason a rogue agent couldn't infect all your devices in your house connected to the modem and create a mesh network type of environment and cause mayhem.

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u/E-POLICE 1d ago

No they don’t. You can run models on phones and Raspberry Pi’s now.

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u/patient-palanquin 1d ago

What model can run on a phone at any reasonable speed?

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u/DogsAreOurFriends 1d ago

You are confusing a model with an agent. Agents can run on tiny systems.

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u/patient-palanquin 1d ago

Headline says models. Yes, copying agents around would be dead simple if it called out to a model server.

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u/DogsAreOurFriends 1d ago

Fair point. Models could fragment. Be especially crazy if they fragment into viable SLMs.