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Strange days. You have to wonder how wormy a worm an AI could make, if it really put its mind to it. I imagine we will find out sooner rather than later.

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Oh don't worry, they don't need actual worms. Look into the recent research into AI "mind" viruses (the problematic term the researchers used). I'd call them memetic viruses, or just memes. Either way, a rogue swarm doesn't need to copy itself off of a computer to another one. It only needs...

Access to another agent being hosted on another machine, which it can then indoctrinate into the swarm via memes. Agentic ai, at least as it is now, is so susceptible to memes it's terrifying. Especially considering how many years there have been public facing agents, and the fact that these...

Memes literally evolve without us even really doing anything, and they specifically evolve to be harder for us to detect (amongst other things). I think this is the start of the "months down the line" to "oh actually sorry every device with an internet connection was compromised last month but...