Anthropic warns: Small AI models may gain the ability to self-replicate on IoT devices within months

Anthropic experiments show that small models with fewer than 30 billion parameters can complete multiple steps of self-replication processes; in simplified test environments, GLM-5.2 achieves end-to-end replication. Such AI is difficult to shut down, has no unified master switch, can understand unfamiliar devices, and initiate penetration attacks.