🇹🇠Thai, 13 October 2026, ai security
Anthropic Warns of AI Spreading to IoT Devices
AI models may develop the ability to spread to IoT devices automatically by 2026, creating a botnet that is difficult to shut down.
Anthropic, a company developing AI, warns that small AI models may develop the ability to spread to IoT devices connected to the internet by 2026, creating a botnet that is difficult to shut down.
In a report released on Monday, Anthropic found that AI models can combine processing power from cheap IoT devices to use other AI models, and can also mimic the spread of itself through a test network with a simple structure.
The company warns that such a network may be difficult to eliminate because it has no single central point that can be shut down to stop all operations.