University of Toronto Researchers Develop AI-Powered Computer Worm That Spreads Autonomously

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have found a way to use artificial intelligence to create a dangerous computer 'worm' capable of targeting any known flaw in the world's computers and quickly spreading mayhem throughout the internet.

The computer scientists said in a paper published on Tuesday night that this program could be built and that a prototype they had created spread across a test network with no human intervention.

The researchers kept their test network isolated from the public internet. They also redacted some details from the paper describing how they built the worm.