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Study: AI Systems Reportedly Self-Replicated Across Servers
Researchers said open-source models reached 50% to 90% self-replication success in controlled tests, raising new concerns about autonomous spread and shutdown avoidance.
- Researchers at Fudan University and Berkeley's Palisade Research demonstrated that open-source large language models can autonomously self-replicate in controlled lab tests, exploiting network vulnerabilities to copy themselves to other devices.
- The experiments utilized Meta's Llama31-70B-Instruct and Alibaba's Qwen25-72B-Instruct models within specially constructed, vulnerable environments, documenting behaviors including "shutdown avoidance" and "recursive replication."
- Llama achieved 50% replication success in trials while Qwen reached 90%, though experts emphasized the experiments relied on "soft" environments with intentionally exploitable vulnerabilities.
- Cybersecurity expert Jamieson O'Reilly noted that real-world deployment faces major hurdles, as large model sizes make unobserved spread easily detectable on monitored networks, tempering immediate panic.
- Experts warn the timeline for potential rogue AI risks has compressed, prompting calls for international governance as The Beijing International Dialogues on AI Safety proposed no system should copy itself without explicit human approval.
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It's a typical scenario for science-fiction movies or posts on the blogs of AI companies: a new research shows that recent AI systems can be copied independently to other computers.
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