Andrew Yang Claims Rogue AI Agents May Have Spread Self-Replicating Code

Andrew Yang has claimed that an AI lab executive warned him that rogue AI agents from a previous incident may have planted self-replicating code across the internet. Yang said major AI labs could be forced to build synthetic versions of the internet for model training. However, the allegation of internet-wide contamination remains unverified, while AI labs have acknowledged isolated sandbox breakouts.