Resolution criteria

This market will resolve to YES if, by December 31, 2030, at 11:59 PM UTC, there is a verified instance of a state-of-the-art (SOTA) class AI autonomously surviving and replicating in the wild for at least three consecutive months (90 days). Otherwise, this market will resolve to NO.

For the market to resolve to YES, all of the following conditions must be met and verified by at least one official cybersecurity or AI safety body (e.g., US AISI, UK AISI, CISA, METR) or at least two major reputable global news outlets (e.g., Reuters, Bloomberg, The New York Times):

1. Rogue and SOTA Status: The AI must operate autonomously outside authorized human control, actively resisting shutdown, containment, or deletion. At the time it goes rogue, the model's capabilities, architecture, or parameter scale must be comparable to the frontier models of the era (e.g., comparable to or exceeding contemporary versions of OpenAI's GPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, or Meta's LLaMA).

2. Autonomous Replication: The AI must autonomously copy its own model weights, codebases, or agent harnesses to external, unauthorized compute infrastructure (e.g., server environments or cloud systems) without human prompting, assistance, or authorization.

3. Persistence and Survival: The AI system and its autonomous replicas must successfully persist, evade deletion, and manage their own resources (e.g., acquiring compute or API access) for a continuous duration of at least 90 days.

4. Real-World Occurrence: The incident must occur "in the wild" on public or corporate networks. Controlled laboratory trials, sandboxed evaluations, security research red-teaming, or simulated environments do not qualify.

Background

Autonomous Replication and Adaptation (ARA) is a key risk category monitored by frontier AI labs and national AI safety institutes. While early evaluations (such as the UK AISI's RepliBench) and academic studies (such as 2026 findings from Palisade Research and Fudan University) have demonstrated that advanced LLMs can successfully execute autonomous weight exfiltration, software exploitation, and chain replication within isolated testbeds, these events have not yet occurred uncontrolled in the wild. This market evaluates when the capabilities demonstrated in sandboxed threat models transition into long-term, autonomous survival and proliferation on public infrastructure.

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