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AttackFeed by Joe Wagner | Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models  - The Hacker News

Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models  – The Hacker News

Posted on June 9, 2026 By [email protected] (The Hacker News) No Comments on Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models  – The Hacker News
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University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without human intervention and without touching a commercial AI service.

The preprint, posted to arXiv on  –

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