Cybersecurity veterans slam Anthropic's "AI worm" claims as policy lobbying

SentinelOne's Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade called Anthropic's warnings about self-replicating AI worms on smart TVs and fridges "clowns" and a tool for regulatory capture. Anthropic's Red Team said small models may be months away from self-replicating on IoT devices. Alex Stamos and Greg Linares also pushed back, calling the scenario weaponized misinformation.

• Guerrero-Saade: "cyber research" is being used for policy arguments and regulatory capture
• Anthropic's Red Team said on October 12 that small models may self-replicate on IoT within months
• Alex Stamos urged AI labs to include DFIR experts in incident post-mortems
• Greg Linares called the AI worm scenario "weaponized misinformation"