Self-replicating AI virus invented

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Only in the lab currently, but coming soon to a GPU near you.

"We must prepare for autonomous generative adversaries," they write. "Artificial intelligence (AI) agents enable a fundamentally new threat: a worm that generates tailored attack strategies to each target it encounters. The worm parasitically uses compromised machines to run open-weight large language models (LLMs) to sustain its reasoning, or extend its reach for further attacks".

https://importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-467-self-sustaining-ai

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"As AI models become smarter, they'll better monetize the same amount of compute. If a true human-level software engineer that could run on an H100 equivalent, at current market rates for software engineers, that H100 should rent for over $250k a year. That's 15x today's spot prices,"