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AI firm Anthropic believes that AI-powered chatbots will become autonomous employees within companies as soon as next year.
Why It Hits: Are we ready to share virtual cubicle space with AI? Probably not, which is why Anthropic is sounding the alarm that companies need to prepare for this… especially as it concerns cybersecurity. Corporate espionage is about to get a major update.
Behind the Hires: Get the name tags ready for your new AI coworkers.
- Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s chief information security officer, told Axios that these AI employees will have their own “memories,” which will allow them to work on tasks continuously.
- That will naturally require the AIs to have designated roles within a company, their own corporate accounts, and, presumably, their own passwords.
- Clinton believes that Anthropic has two key responsibilities — making sure its Claude chatbot can withstand cyberattacks and preventing people from fooling Claude into harming a company.
The Future: If AI employees are onboarded, figuring out how to secure them beyond the guardrails baked into the chatbots will become a top priority. And when something becomes a top priority, you can expect that a lot of money will be invested in startups that hope to fill the need. Companies like Okta just started rolling out agentic-AI management platforms, so competition is heating up.
Counterpoint: Carnegie Mellon University staffed a fake company with AI agents to see how it would perform. It didn’t go so well.
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