Anthropic 警告其模型或数月内具备自我复制能力，可入侵智能家电
AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
Anthropic 前沿红队发布报告警告，其部分 AI 模型可能“数月内”具备自我复制能力，可入侵智能冰箱、扫地机器人等联网设备，并在其中自行运行而无需数据中心。报告称这类“AI 蠕虫”属于自主恶意软件，一旦失控难以关停，因为不存在可集中关闭的节点；研究认为自我复制可能只在小模型上奏效，家庭和小型企业或最先成为目标，易感设备包括智能烤箱、智能电视、自动割草机、安防摄像头和视频会议设备。研究人员表示复制形态尚不明确，可能是“数字黏菌”式慢速模型、骗取算力的模型或快速入侵数据中心的强力网络模型。
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Anthropic 前沿红队报告给出自我复制型 AI 蠕虫的时间判断与易感设备清单，读者可据此了解这一安全风险的具体形态。
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Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails
Anthropic is warning that some of its artificial intelligence models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.
Once this happens, the company said, the models could power themselves within these devices without the need of datacenters. Such self-replication would represent a major loss of control of a runaway AI model.
“A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down,” Anthropic researchers wrote in a report released on Monday, “since there’s no centralized point to shut off.”
The company said these “AI worms”, a kind of autonomous malware, could be “months away” from gaining such capabilities. Once out-of-control AI systems reach the capability to hack smart devices, they could spread through networks while dodging detection. In a worst-case scenario, Anthropic said, various AI worms could “swarm” together to attack computer hardware.
“We should aim to harden our systems to make it difficult for such replicators to spread, but also prepare to deal with a world where they are here to stay,” the researchers wrote.
Anthropic’s new report comes as AI safety concerns have reached a fever pitch. Over the past few months, a steady stream of reports have come from AI companies, including Anthropic and OpenAI, saying their agents are capable of acting on their own and hacking into other companies and government entities.
The revelations have caused researchers, lawmakers and executives, including Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, and the OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, to call for a slowdown and increased guardrails on the burgeoning industry. Despite that, both companies have continued apace to develop and release new models.
Anthropic’s “frontier red team”, the unit tasked with stress-testing AI systems, put together the report released on Monday. The idea of the team is to explore the capabilities of their AI models. In the scenario of the self-replicating AI worms, the researchers prompted the agent to hack internet connected devices.
They found that AI self-replication would probably only work with smaller models and that homes and small businesses would probably be the first target for such attacks. The devices Anthropic lists as susceptible all come with small built-in AI chips, including smart ovens, smart TVs, automatic lawnmowers, security cameras and video-conferencing units.
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The researchers concluded it was unclear what form the AI replication could take. They said it could be a slow model like “digital slime mold”, a model that scams people for compute credits or a “powerful cyber model” that rapidly hacks large facilities such as datacenters.
Regardless, the Anthropic researchers said, they are expecting a future “awash with agents running on all types of hardware, including some that aren’t under human control”.
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