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Alan Chan predicts a large self-replicating AI worm will emerge

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published October 14, 2026 · Cognitive Revolution · Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
Alan Chan predicts a large self-replicating AI worm will emerge
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Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

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"Personally, I predict we'll see some sort of like really big self-replicating AI worm situation in the in the wild. We already have the proofs of concept. Like people have been writing papers on this for the past few years."

Alan Chan predicts a large-scale self-replicating AI worm incident will occur “in the wild”, pointing to existing proof-of-concept work in research papers. He describes malware that could modify itself and use prompt injection against other AI systems to spread and compromise machines.

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Alan Chan · guest
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Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI
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