Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity

Researchers from the University of Toronto, Vector Institute, University of Cambridge, and ServiceNow built a self-sustaining AI prototype worm that uses stolen GPUs to run an open-weight LLM locally for inference and self-replication, with a vulnerability detection success rate of about 80%, an exploitation success rate of about 53%, a self-replication success rate of 88%, and an overall attack success rate of about 37%.