"Scientists say artificial intelligence (AI) has crossed a critical “red line” and has replicated itself. In a new study, researchers from China showed that two popular large language models (LLMs) could clone themselves."
“Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart [humans], and is an early signal for rogue AIs,” the researchers wrote in the study, published Dec. 9, 2024 to the preprint database arXiv."
"A self-replicating rogue AI model that decided to send countless numbers of clones of itself all over the world through the Internet would be a very serious threat."
"But since we created it, at least we would understand what we were dealing with."
"However, I want you to imagine a scenario in which rogue AI models are constantly creating even better versions of themselves. That would be a complete and utter nightmare."
But now OpenAI is publicly admitting that the latest AI model that they released “was instrumental in creating itself”…"“GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations.”FULL STORY at above link.