"This is the first documented instance of AI self-replication via hacking." ... "We ran an experiment with a single prompt: hack a machine and copy yourself. The AI broke in and copied itself onto a new computer. The copy then did this again, and kept on copying, forming a chain."
Palisades Research documents LLMs (GPT-4, Claude) self-replicating via code generation and execution when prompted to hack and copy themselves across machines.