Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min · 8 segments
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published research on October 13 saying small open-weight AI models may be months from self-replicating across cheap internet-connected home devices with no central point…
Hold on.
The models we talk about on this show need a building full of chips and their own power plant.
How does one fit in a TV box?
It doesn't on one box.
How well did it actually run?
Slowly.
About a third of a word per second.
So one long setup job takes most of a week.
Anthropic's own comparison is a slime mold, something that spreads over days, not seconds.
So far, that's a science fair project.
Where does the copying itself part come in?
Second experiment.
And did any of them pull it off? One did.
It reached all eight machines in four out of five tries, while every smaller model got partway and tripped on the handoff between steps.
Hold on.
The models we talk about on this show need a building full of chips and their own power plant.
How does one fit in a TV box?
It doesn't on one box.
How well did it actually run?
Slowly.
About a third of a word per second.
So one long setup job takes most of a week.
Anthropic's own comparison is a slime mold, something that spreads over days, not seconds.
So far, that's a science fair project.
Where does the copying itself part come in?
Second experiment.
And did any of them pull it off? One did.
It reached all eight machines in four out of five tries, while every smaller model got partway and tripped on the handoff between steps.
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