Once the CSD is assembled, it may replicate uncontrollably so that it does not stop until it has reduced to nothing but a zillion copies of itself. This will result in a vast seething mass of what is known as "gray-goo" shown below.

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Uncontrollable Replication:

• One of the major risks of creating nanomachines is the possibility of uncontrollable self-replication.

• Also, if nanotechnology is not correctly applied to the programming of the nanomachines, chaos would occur because trillions of nanomachines would be trying to do their own individual task instead of working together.