Oh no! AI can replicate itself! … when you tell it to, and you give it copies of all its files
“Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line” is the sort of title you give a preprint for clickbait potential. An LLM, a spicy autocomplete, can now produce copies of itself! …
we already had quines at home. I’ll have to try see if I can budget quaking in my boots at scary-pictures-on-the-wall quines. hard call tho
Sure it can cp, but can it also mv?
to /dev/null preferably