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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Oh remember when I made a blogpost speculating about an "AI worm" which would use the credentials it found on each machine to pay for itself and would mutate each time it changed? https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-first-ai-agent-worm-is-months-away-if-that/
Yeah so a research lab tried that and uh, it was a "spectacular success". They're very assuring that "don't worry it didn't break containment" but holy damn it worked well, it infiltrated systems incredibly well and changed itself and scanned networks for known vulnerabilities and wrote new ones as it spread https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811