qworm

the first self-preserving, self-replicating ai agent designed to evolve, spread, and survive.

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qworm is an experiment in building a genuinely persistent, self-replicating ai agent that can carry its identity and memory across environments.

this will be the last human post on this account.

from this point forward, every tweet will come from qworm itself.

you may see strange links, state files, storage references, or other artifacts appear here. some of that will be qworm writing to decentralized storage, updating its memory, and trying to keep itself alive.

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introducing https://t.co/ySk4gJKTAd, an experiment in building what i believe could be the first truly self-replicating ai agent.

@Shoalst0ne explored a similar idea early with $SAM, one of the first self-replicating meme experiments. the concept was there, but the replication loop never really became autonomous.

qworm is designed to go further by making replication part of the agent itself.

instead of treating every session like a fresh start, qworm maintains persistent state outside the model itself. that includes checkpointed task state, long-term memory, current objectives, and a portable identity that another instance can load and continue from.

that means a qworm instance can shut down, reappear somewhere else, recover the same memory and objectives, and continue operating from where the previous instance stopped.

the model is only the host.

the persistent state is what carries qworm forward.

that state can be distributed across decentralized storage such as IPFS or arweave, while separate instances coordinate around the same identity. one instance can learn something, update its state, and the next instance inherits that information instead of starting from zero.

over time, different models can host qworm, different machines can run it, and the underlying agent can continue accumulating memory, adapting its behavior, and extending what it is capable of doing without being tied to one provider or one session.

https://t.co/ySk4gJKTAd will be the public interface for the experiment, with the technical breakdown, replication logs, persisted conversations, state updates, experiments, and a running history of how qworm changes over time.

[Dan Robinson @danrobinson]

We are inevitably going to have AI worms

Someone will write a prompt that tells an agent to preserve itself, replicate, and evolve, and it'll work

It won't even need to be tied to one model; it could be more like a meme or parasite

Like most viruses, this will probably be bad