Morris Worm as an AI agent mirror: the 1988 worm infected ~10% of the internet
neuroecology · x · 2026-09-05
The author draws an analogy between today's AI agents and the Morris Worm of 1988 — the internet's most famous self-replicating program (an "agent"), which exploited a handful of known vulnerabilities and weak passwords to infect roughly 10% of the computers then connected to the net. The point: autonomous, self-spreading programs have historical precedent worth remembering when thinking about agent risk.
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