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Oct 22, 2026 5 min

AI That Copies Itself — With No Off Switch

from The Lab Report with MJ. Hosted by Michael Jenkin

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team warns small AI models may soon self-replicate across smart devices — and in their tests one model ran the full gauntlet: eight machines, four of five tries. The honest part: today's models still fumble, the tests used easy targets, and it's not a consumer emergency. #Shorts #AI #Cybersecurity #TechNews #LabReport 📖 My book *The Last Inheritance* — https://a.co/d/01ZVxQ6il Music: original score composed for The Lab Report with MJ Chapters: 00:03 Intro — Anthropic's AI worm warning 00:49 Worm history: Morris (1988) and Mirai (2016) 01:24 Each step works, end-to-end doesn't 01:54 GLM-5.2 did the full sequence 02:05 The digital slime mold demo 02:57 No kill switch — 133,000 copies 03:45 Honest caveats — pump the brakes 04:32 What you can actually do

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