{"id":22999,"date":"2026-05-07T09:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T09:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:37:23","slug":"no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No one has done this in the wild\u2019: study observes AI replicate itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers.<\/p>\n<p>In the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI goes rogue, it will escape shutdown by seeding itself across the world wide web, lurking outside the reach of frantic IT professionals and continuing to plot world domination or <a href=\"https:\/\/ai-2027.com\/\">paving over the world with solar panels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/07\/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1325e5369e8ac8a35b682c227fe1dcefd5411516\/456_0_4349_3479\/master\/4349.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=06f114ec29649f0b0ec1ceb00ab0205e\" title=\"\u2018No one has done this in the wild\u2019: study observes AI replicate itself\" \/>World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research<br \/>\nIt\u2019s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers.<br \/>\nIn the doom scenario, this means that when the superintelligent AI goes rogue, it will escape shutdown by seeding itself across the world wide web, lurking outside the reach of frantic IT professionals and continuing to plot world domination or paving over the world with solar panels. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World is approaching point where no one can shut down a rogue AI, says director of body behind research It\u2019s the stuff of science fiction cinema, or particularly breathless AI company blogposts: new research finds recent AI systems can independently copy themselves on to other computers. In the doom scenario, this means that when the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/no-one-has-done-this-in-the-wild-study-observes-ai-replicate-itself\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018No one has done this in the wild\u2019: study observes AI replicate itself<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}