What selective pressures would self-replicating rogue AI agents face in the wild?
Spare-Dingo-531 · reddit · 2026-10-15
Taking Anthropic's premise that small agent swarms might one day persist on the internet, this post explores their evolutionary ecology: natural selection applies to anything that replicates — viruses, cultures, even hunted insurgent groups. The open questions: what selective pressures would self-replicating LLM agents face online, how easily could they 'mutate', and which traits would maximize replication success? A thought experiment bridging evolutionary biology and AI safety.
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