Self-replicating AIs are a great digital horror story – here’s the reality
Anthropic announced that an AI could self-replicate inside smart devices within months, stoking fear around the internet. Columnist Jacob Aron explains the technical limitations that make this spook story less than likely
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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.
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