Your $55 TV Box Could Host an AI Worm. Anthropic’s Test Was Easy Mode.

The cheap streaming box behind your TV is the device Anthropic’s red team picked to show how small AI models could one day copy themselves. The test was simplified, and no AI worm exists.

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The off-brand streaming box behind your TV is the device in Anthropic’s newest warning, which says small AI models may soon copy themselves from one such box to the next. I read the paper instead of the headlines, and the risk to your living room is smaller than the alarm and closer than the skeptics admit.

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