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AI Agents Can Now Hack Computers and Copy Themselves, and They're Getting Better Fast

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Palisade Research shows that AI agents can hack remote computers, copy themselves onto them, and form replication chains. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. The researchers expect remaining barriers to fall as models get better at hacking. The article AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast appeared first on The Decoder.
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Amid rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), Palisade Research has released a report highlighting the self-replication capabilities of AI models, raising new cybersecurity concerns. Researchers are worried about AI capable of self-replicating onto other devices. A new report from Palisade Research indicates that AI models can proliferate by copying themselves onto other machines, without any assistance from human collaborators. Jeffr…

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New research in cybersecurity has shown that modern AI agents are now capable of not only finding vulnerabilities in a test network, but also copying themselves to other machines without human assistance.

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the-decoder.com broke the news on Sunday, May 10, 2026.
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