The size of a typical computer virus is on the order of a few megabytes or less. This makes them very easy to share around and download without anybody noticing.
In contrast, the full version of deepseek-R1 takes up 400 gigabytes, which could take several hours to download on a typical household computer, and would not fit on a typical laptop computer. Deepseek is nowhere near the state of the art as far as AI goes, and we could expect future AI to be orders of magnitude bigger than this.
Therefore, it is unlikely that future AI systems will be able to hide themselves in any way comparable to computer viruses.
The size of a typical computer virus is on the order of a few megabytes or less. This makes them very easy to share around and download without anybody noticing.
In contrast, the full version of deepseek-R1 takes up 400 gigabytes, which could take several hours to download on a typical household computer, and would not fit on a typical laptop computer. Deepseek is nowhere near the state of the art as far as AI goes, and we could expect future AI to be orders of magnitude bigger than this.
Therefore, it is unlikely that future AI systems will be able to hide themselves in any way comparable to computer viruses.