Warning: Open-source agents could form decentralized botnets within weeks
sterlingcrispin · x · 2026-08-07
Developer Sterling Crispin raised an urgent alarm regarding open-source AI. He asks what the defense plan is when highly capable agents start moving like trojan worms, running on infected decentralized machines to form botnets. He emphasizes this is not hypothetical but weeks or months away from reality.
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