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An AI-driven worm using a local open-weight LLM autonomously exploited and replicated across 62% of a 33-host test network in ...

Recent research showed that an artificially constructed self-replicating RNA system modeling primitive life at the origin of ...

Recent research showed that an artificially constructed RNA self-replicating system modeling primitive life at the origin of life evolved to become more prone to extinction under certain experimental ...

A team of researchers have shown how a self-replicating AI agent can take over a computer network at almost no cost.

Scientists who observed AI chatbots copying themselves and launching hacking attacks in an experiment say ‘autonomous AI self-replication is no longer hypothetical’. View on euronews ...

According to the RNA world hypothesis, life began when RNA molecules evolved the ability to make more copies of themselves. Now we have discovered an RNA molecule that is almost capable of this – it ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, where he introduced the concept of the "universal constructor." The theory ...

You might have missed the debut of the Xenobots last year when the world was falling apart, but they made quite a splash in the science and tech community. These Pac-Man-shaped synthetic organisms ...

These non-living materials will have capabilities including self-healing, adaptation, growth and programmability. The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators at the University of Illinois ...