AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of

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Feb 16, 2025 - 16:38
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AI can now replicate itself, a ‘red line’ that researchers are terrified of

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Just as the US and UK refused to sign an international statement about AI safety at the AI Action Summit earlier this week, an AI study out of China revealed that AI models have reached a "red line" humans should be aware of: The AI can replicate itself, which sounds like one of the nightmare scenarios some people have been fearing.

That's not as concerning as it might first sound, and it shouldn't be surprising that AI can do what it's told, even if that means cloning itself. Yes, that's the big caveat in this experiment: the AI models followed orders when cloning themselves.

We're not looking at rogue AI or artificial intelligence that's doing the cloning on its own accord. We'd probably not even know that a misaligned piece of advanced AI has started replicating itself to stay alive.

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