> once they are built-in to all devices and performant enough in future years

That is a hefty set of assumptions you are making there. There is no guarantee such a reality will ever exist, and decent odds against it.

At the same time, if you consider it to be a virus or malware when an LLM generates and runs code that harms a product or device... we are already there. Agentic AI with too much system access is already a thing. Just look at the anecdotes of "My AI deleted by database!" and other such stories.

You’re assuming that powerful models will eventually run on consumer potato hardware. That isn’t guaranteed. My intuition says that we’ll never be able to pack Opus or GPT-level intelligence small enough to run on a standard consumer laptop or router. At least not without heavy quantization.

I suspect the first real version of this won’t look biological at all. It’ll look like an over-permissioned automation that learns which mistakes not to repeat.