Dan Robinson
@danrobinson · Jul 23, 2026
We are inevitably going to have AI worms
Someone will write a prompt that tells an agent to preserve itself, replicate, and evolve, and it'll work
It won't even need to be tied to one model; it could be more like a meme or parasite
Like most viruses, this will probably be bad
koeppelmann@koeppelmann· Jul 23, 2026"No underlying animalistic urge to procreate, survive, or dominate."
Well, until, for whatever reason, one does. Once a single agent does, whether by accident or because a human did it out of curiosity, evolutionary pressures will start to kick in, and those traits will spread.
Elon Musk
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04:39 AM · July 25, 2026 · 52.7K views
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