Why AI companies want to take control of your computer
- Mar 29
- 1 min read
NY MAG — It’s a way, in other words, to see what users want to do with more capable AI agents that they can’t do yet, at least not conveniently. It’s market research for agentic automation, identifying the gaps in what Claude can do on its own and putting pressure on outside firms to help fill them, in turn making Claude more powerful and helping to solidify its reputation as the AI firm for power users and work.
It’s a way for Anthropic, on its way to automating as much of the white-collar economy as it can — while warning, guiltily, that it is attempting to automate as much of the white-collar economy as it can — to enlist its most enthusiastic users to identify its next targets, and for those targets to then decide if they want to try to figure out how to play along.
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