Smashing Security podcast #471: This AI worm just rewrote its own rules
Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it works out how to break into each new computer it encounters, and hijacks the powerful ones to host its own AI brain. And then the research…
So it was a little bit akin to rituals to summon a demon or speak to the dead.But if you went through Meta's escalating procedures in exactly the right way, on the right day of the week, wearing a ye… [+3637 chars]