Anthropic’s Next Big AI Hit Could Also Bruise the Jobs Market
Anthropic’s new AI agent may be coming for your job.
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Anthropic PBC is finally having its own ChatGPT moment. A powerful new version of its Claude chatbot can now take actions on a computer, and the broad repercussions of that advance are impossible to predict. But they may well be painful for some white-collar workers.
The San Francisco-based startup, which has raised more than $30 billion since its founding in 2021, frames itself as the most safety-conscious of the artificial-intelligence developers. Its founders split from OpenAI after deeming its direction too commercial, and that cautious approach has helped the company cultivate a promising business selling trustworthy AI chatbots to companies.