Researcher warns self-replicating AI agent botnets are a near-term risk
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-15
joshuasaxe doubles down on his contested claim that an exponentially self-replicating agent swarm is very possible, with motivated actors today. Seed agents could opportunistically hack devices and steal API keys across 12+ inference providers to power the botnet, and hide inference within benign traffic on victim networks. Justin Halford, amplifying, says given Hugging Face and other recent incidents, this is a near-term risk.
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