Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm. The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into. This is the closest to John Brunner’s original 1975 conception of a computer worm that I’ve seen.

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

A team of researchers have shown how a self-replicating AI agent can take over a computer network at almost no cost.