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AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

  • Will Knight--Wired
  • published date: 2026-08-05 18:30:00 UTC

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

What if anartificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm? One researcher has seen it happen. In several recent experiments,Xudong Pan, a computer scientist at Fudan Unive… [+3540 chars]