Anthropic warns self-replicating AI worms could threaten Bitcoin wallets
- —Anthropic: small AI models may achieve self-replication on IoT devices within months
- —AI worms target Android TVs, smart appliances and cameras with no central point to block them
- —Schultze-Kraft: 6.26M BTC, a third of supply, held in potentially vulnerable addresses
Why it matters: Advancing AI capabilities raise security risks for crypto wallets and renew calls to migrate funds from vulnerable addresses.
Source: Bloomingbit
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