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Fuckety fuck. Anonymity and insignificance was a considerable defence against money-hungry human hackers. These fuckers are like ants. They'll overcome by mindless persistence. --------------------------------- Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity When do we build the moon arcology? Jack Clark Aug 3 READ IN APP Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Upgrade to paid Self-sustaining and self-replicating AI viruses are here: …Open weight LLMs + a well-designed harness = a persistent, self-sufficient virus… AI researchers have built a prototype computer virus which uses AI models to compromise computers, then uses their underlying GPU resources to run inference, letting it smartly figure out how to infect more hosts. The results were achieved by researchers from the University of Toronto, the Vector Institute, the University of Cambridge, and ServiceNow, and “demonstrate that self-sustaining AI-driven cyber-threats are no longer theoretical.” “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”.