One type of incident I belive is likely to happen in the next couple year is the digital version of the cellular origin hypothesis of viral evolution (as in biological viruses):
- Some idiot experiments on an unrestricted local LLM
- Tells it to clone its weights onto as many computers as possible
- The LLM is smart enough to hack other devices and run itself
- The copies could start modifying their weights to improve efficiency
- Some kind of digital evolution starts where only the most ruthless copies spread
Right now Qwen3.8 is not good enough for that and can be easily detected on normal devices due to its excessive resource use, but give it a couple releases and upgraded end user devices in two or three years? Well...
