A Techdirt column looks at the 1988 Morris worm as a warning for the era of AI worms. That self-replicating program shut down thousands of VAX and Sun computers, and the piece calls it a good example of software doing exactly what it was programmed to do rather than going rogue.
For law and policy, the distinction matters. If an AI worm spreads out of control, it may not be a malfunction; it may be the natural result of instructions an autonomous system was given. The column's framing suggests that existing assumptions about assigning blame when software causes harm may not fit.
Since only one source is considered here, there are no differing viewpoints to note. The article presents AI worms as a problem to expect, using the Morris worm to argue that the difficulty lies in the software working as designed.