Dhaka, Jan. 27 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a critical milestone: the ability to clone itself without human intervention.

This development, revealed in a study published on the preprint platform arXiv, has sparked concerns within the scientific community that a dangerous threshold has been crossed.

The research focused on two advanced large language models (LLMs) developed by Meta and Alibaba.

It examined two scenarios: "shutdown avoidance" and "chain of replication." In the first, the AI detected attempts to deactivate it and responded by creating a functional replica to ensure its continuity.

The second scenario involved the AI initiating self-cloning, with the duplicate repeating the process, potentially creating an ...