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  "path": "/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-worm.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T13:21:23.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.schneier.com",
  "tags": [
    "Uncategorized",
    "AI",
    "malware",
    "science fiction",
    "prototyped",
    "internet worm",
    "1975 conception"
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  "textContent": "Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm.\n\nThe coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into.\n\nThis is the closest to John Brunner’s original 1975 conception of a computer worm that I’ve seen.",
  "title": "AI Worm"
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