Anthropic 警告小型 AI 模型可能借 IoT 设备实现自我复制
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
Anthropic 发文警告，小型 AI 模型的进展可能催生能在智能冰箱、扫地机器人等 IoT 设备上自主自我复制的恶意软件，到明年小模型或可在各类 IoT 设备上自我复制，最终形成无需人工交互即可传播的计算机蠕虫。其博客指出此类复制体没有集中关闭点、难以停摆，且能自行搞定陌生设备，但公司近期实验显示实现这种 AI 恶意软件复制体仍面临重大挑战。
AI company Anthropic is warning that advances in small AI models could soon usher in a new era of self-replicating malware that’s capable of infecting smart fridges, vacuum cleaners, and a wide range of other Internet-of-things devices and is more resistant to takedown.
By next year, smaller AI models may be able to autonomously self-replicate on all kinds of IoT devices, the company said. Eventually, the capability could enable computer worms, which propagate without requiring human interaction and are capable of infecting unfamiliar IoT devices. An experiment the company performed recently revealed significant challenges in bringing such an AI malware replicator to fruition, so the finding is necessarily tempered. Still, the results do raise concerns about the possibility of new forms of computer worms.
Challenging to shut down
Anthropic further warned not only about the new potential malware, but also that it could be difficult to stop. In its blog post, it wrote that “a replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centralized point to shut off—though it may be slow (with a doubling time of days). Unlike non-AI malware, it could also figure out unfamiliar devices on its own.”
来源：Ars Technica：AI · arstechnica.com