Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

It took a while for people to adjust to the idea of chatbots that seem to have minds of their own. The next leap into the unknown may involve trusting artificial intelligence to take over our computers, too. Anthropic, a high-flying competitor to OpenAI, announced today that it has taught its AI model Claude to do a range of things on a computer, including search the web, open applications, and input text using the mouse and keyboard. "I think we're going to enter into a new era where a model can use all of the tools that you use as a person to get tasks done," says Jared Kaplan, chief science officer at Anthropic and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. Kaplan showed WIRED a prerecorded demo in which an "agentic"--or tool-using--version of Claude had been asked to help plan an outing to see the sunrise at the Golden Gate Bridge with a friend.