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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — mentioned by arnaudsm

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:54:34 GMT

Reminds me of this paper where they demonstrate the same thing : https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — mentioned by edouard-harris

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:37:46 GMT

> Even if you think that the risk of a “containment breach” becomes substantially higher for AI over time, it cannot exceed 100% I agree with this as stated, but it isn't what I said. What I said was: "the level of care required increases every month". By which I meant: the level of care required to keep the probability of an AI containment breach below some fixed X% increases every month. This isn't the case for biological organisms.[0] > And even a tiny risk of release of a virus comes with a substantial risk of independent growth. AI does not. It doesn’t have the risk of spread of a…

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — mentioned by scoring1774

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:39:02 GMT

Depends on which models you're talking about. Some research shows open source models can already do this: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811v1. What happens as they become more parameter efficient?

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — mentioned by scoring1774

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:51:08 GMT

This is not true, there's already papers demonstrating that this can be done: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03811v1

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — HN submission

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:52:44 GMT

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — HN submission

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — HN submission

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — mentioned by smokel

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:23:19 GMT

The academic paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811 It's not fully described how things work exactly, but apparently it does not transfer entire LLMs as part of the worm. Now that would be interesting :)

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AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms — HN submission

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:52:33 GMT

AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms

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