Self-replicating AI skeptics: it runs in datacenters, not your laptop
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-13
Drachs1978 pushes back on fears of self-replicating AI spreading everywhere: the AI is running in datacenters, not on users' busted 10-year-old laptops.
He argues that even low-grade "AI critters" are years away — no earlier than 2030+ — since it requires local AI accelerators to become common and then be forgotten in closets before any self-propagation is possible.
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