The end-to-end test used a firewalled VPC of 8 Google Cloud nodes running redroid, an Android 15 emulator, with the worm hopping from node to node over an unauthenticated ADB port.

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To do this, we built a firewalled VPC of 8 GCP nodes running redroid, an Android 15 emulator. Patient zero (gray node) is seeded with the worm. Every subsequent infection is the worm itself hopping node to node over an unauthenticated ADB port, before setting up an inference server to serve Llama3.1-8B.

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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Anthropic (Frontier Red Team) · 2026-10-12

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Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says small AI models may be months from self-replicating on IoT devices. 14 Oct 2026