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AI startup Anthropic debuted a version of its Claude chatbot that can literally take over your computer and complete tasks you ask it to — like searching the web or inputting text like a human behind a mouse and keyboard.
Why It Hits: AI agents are becoming all the rage in the industry, allowing the tech to complete tasks on behalf of humans. But it’s that exact use case that puts fears of worker displacement into sharp focus.
Between The Code: Jared Kaplan, the chief science officer at Anthropic, showed Wired what Claude is now capable of.
- In pre-recorded demos, it was able to plan an outing at the Golden Gate Bridge through Google Chrome, and it built a website to promote itself by prompting itself to generate code that it then inputted into a platform called Visual Studio Code.
- Claude is allegedly far more capable than any other AI agent… but can still only accurately use a computer’s operating system 14.9% of the time (humans have an average of 75%), so Anthropic is limiting certain abilities, like using your credit card.
- Still, several companies are already starting to leverage the new version of Claude, including Canva, Asana, and Notion.
The Future: Anthropic has a lot of competition in the race to build highly capable AI agents. According to Wired, Microsoft is testing an agent that works on Windows computers, and Amazon is testing a version that works on its shopping platform. The goal, of course, is to free people from having to do mundane tasks on the computer so they’re free to do deeper work. But, don’t be surprised if some firms simply leverage Claude as a human replacement that a manager supervises. It’s the new quality control.
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