Is self-replicating AI really just months away?janiecbros/Getty Images Much of the AI industry is built on stories, from the idea that AI could kill us all to the goal that it might one day become superintelligent. This often leads to problems, because when people have a story in their head, they don’t always look at the facts on the ground to check that they actually match the fiction. That has happened this week, with widely reported claims from Anthropic that we are mere “months away” from self-replicating AIs taking over smart devices. That’s a great headline, and it’s hard to resist clicking, but it almost certainly isn’t true. Read more AI or ‘super intelligence’? Trump isn’t the only ...