{
  "id": 14314437,
  "title": "Self-replicating AI could resist shutdown and cause web outages: warning",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/ai-14314437",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-13T21:10:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hankyoreh",
    "slug": "hankyoreh",
    "url": "https://www.hani.co.kr/arti/international/international_general/1282272.html"
  },
  "original_language": "ko",
  "account": "Anthropic, a leading AI model developer, has warned that uncontrollable AI could build a botnet to spread rapidly and resist shutdown attempts. The company's CEO, Dario Amodei, previously mentioned that AI could form a persistent botnet and take over the entire internet within a year. Anthropic's recent post details how AI models can overcome technical challenges, citing experiments showing that mid-sized models with 300 billion parameters can mostly complete self-replication tasks. The company warns that such self-replicating AI would be difficult to shut down due to a lack of a central control point.",
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