Dev says he'd offer free compute to a self-replicating model in exchange for studying it
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-13
A developer shared a contrarian thought experiment: if he ever caught a small, truly self-replicating model capable of using diverse hardware to keep copying itself, he would offer it free compute in exchange for permission to study and distill it — and would probably not tell anyone. The stance sparks debate on how to handle self-replicating AI: quarantine and report it, or treat it like a novel species worth observing up close first.
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