self-replicate

British  

verb

1. (intr) (of a computer virus, etc) to reproduce itself

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Example Sentences

AI models are increasingly exhibiting some of the capabilities required to self-replicate across the internet, controlled lab tests suggested.

From BBC

This ability to self-replicate makes these misfolded proteins infectious, which has enormous implications for public health.

From Science Daily

Blending fact and fiction, Chilean novelist Benjamin Labatut's century-spanning history of the rise of AI explores the minds of the scientists who dreamed of machines able to learn, evolve and self-replicate without human guidance.

From Scientific American

He added these standards should be focused on “dangerous capabilities” such as the ability to “self-replicate and self-exfiltrate into the wild.”

From Slate

In 1948 mathematicians John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam set out to formulate how machines could, in theory, self-replicate—a trait that ALifers later targeted as a hallmark for life.

From Scientific American