AIThe Hacker Newsabout 4 hours ago
Self-Replicating AI Worm Built on Open-Weight Models
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University of Toronto researchers built a proof-of-concept AI worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight LLM to generate attack strategies and replicate across a network without human input. In 15 runs on a 33-host network, it identified 31.3 vulnerabilities on average and replicated to 62% of hosts.
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