Anthropic: AI Worms Could Live on $55 TV Boxes Within Months

Fifteen cheap TV boxes wired together ran a twenty six billion parameter model, and a botnet of two million such boxes could host roughly 133,000 copies of an AI that cannot be switched off from one place. Fifty Five Dollar TV Boxes and a Self Copying AI: Anthropic's Warning About Worms in Your Living Room, October 14, 2026 Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small open weight AI models may be only months away from copying themselves onto cheap connected devices like Android TV boxes. Brian ...