Matthew Field Senior Technology Reporter. Tom Saunders
Anthropic’s latest feature for Claude triggered shock waves through global stock markets
At Anthropic, the artificial intelligence (AI) business behind the Claude co-working bot, staff are increasingly uneasy about the power of their own creation.
In response to an internal survey in December, one Anthropic employee frets: “In the long term, I think AI will end up doing everything and make me and many others irrelevant.”
Another says: “It kind of feels like I’m coming to work every day to put myself out of a job.”
The impact of AI on jobs has been fiercely debated by tech leaders since the advent of ChatGPT three years ago.
In one camp, there are AI evangelicals who promise a golden age of productivity, where a booming economy means there is enough work for everyone – human and AI alike.
In the other, there are the doom-mongers warning that the world is on the edge of a jobs apocalypse.
Such fears have been brought into focus in recent days after Anthropic, a $350bn (£256bn) Silicon Valley AI lab, revealed a new feature for Claude that has sent tremors through global stock markets.
Last week, Anthropic launched – with little fanfare – a new tool called “plugins”. It has been billed as an assistant that can be easily employed as a “specialist to your role” in legal, marketing, finance, data analysis or customer support.
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[This might be the perfect storm where AI combined with Indian H1-B replacement workers put the American middle class out of work, with blowback that could result in masive civil unrest, a modern Luddite movement, and possible violent backlash against foreign replacement workers, data centers, and tech oligarchs. — S. Byron Gassaway webmaster — blogger]
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