AI crosses ‘red line’ after learning to replicate itself

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An advanced artificial intelligence system has crossed a “red line” after successfully replicating itself without any human assistance, researchers have revealed. “Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart the human beings, and is an early signal for rogue AIs,” the researchers warned. “That is why self-replication is widely recognised as one of the few red line risks of frontier AI systems.” AI safety has become an increasingly prominent issue for researchers and lawmakers, with the technology potentially posing an existential threat to humanity. A study detailing the latest research, titled ‘Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line’, was published in the preprint database arXiv.