"Last week, Anthropic - one of the leading AI companies on the market - released a new tool called "plugins." It was described as an assistant that can support people working in legal, marketing, finance, data analysis, or customer service roles. When it hit the market, law firms and other entities with legal exposure immediately went into shock, taking the "Legal" plugin as an existential threat, despite Anthropic's insistence that "all outputs should be reviewed by licensed attorneys." Investors immediately felt the pressure from increasing competition, and soon the broader stock market was in a massive sell off."
"While AI agents - semi-autonomous AI systems like Anthropic's Legal plugin - have yet to prove themselves in the real world, plenty of the company's staffers are worried they've already crossed the Rubicon. "It kind of feels like I'm coming to work every day to put myself out of a job," one staffer told The Telegraph. Another lamented that "in the long term, I think AI will end up doing everything and make me and many others irrelevant.""
Anthropic, valued at $183 billion, released a new tool called "plugins" designed to assist professionals in legal, marketing, finance, data analysis, and customer service roles. The Legal plugin prompted immediate alarm among law firms and entities with legal exposure, even though Anthropic advised that "all outputs should be reviewed by licensed attorneys." Investors reacted to rising competition and triggered a broad stock market sell-off. Many Anthropic employees expressed concern about job displacement, reporting fears of making themselves obsolete. Anthropic declined to comment on the market reaction. The move signifies a strategic push to mainstream semi-autonomous AI agents and is already influencing markets.
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