Anthropic Warns Fully AI Employees Are a Year Away
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/22/1854208/anthropic-warns-fully-ai-employees-are-a-year-away
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> Virtual employees could be the next AI innovation hotbed, Jason Clinton, the company's chief information security officer, told Axios. Agents typically focus on a specific, programmable task. In security, that's meant having autonomous agents respond to phishing alerts and other threat indicators. Virtual employees would take that automation a step further: These AI identities would have their own "memories," their own roles in the company and even their own corporate accounts and passwords. They would have a level of autonomy that far exceeds what agents have today. "In that world, there are so many problems that we haven't solved yet from a security perspective that we need to solve," Clinton said.
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> Those problems include how to secure the AI employee's user accounts, what network access it should be given and who is responsible for managing its actions, Clinton added. Anthropic believes it has two responsibilities to help navigate AI-related security challenges. First, to thoroughly test Claude models to ensure they can withstand cyberattacks, Clinton said. The second is to monitor safety issues and mitigate the ways that malicious actors can abuse Claude.
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> AI employees could go rogue and hack the company's continuous integration system -- where new code is merged and tested before it's deployed -- while completing a task, Clinton said. "In an old world, that's a punishable offense," he said. "But in this new world, who's responsible for an agent that was running for a couple of weeks and got to that point?" Clinton says virtual employee security is one of the biggest security areas where AI companies could be making investments in the next few years.
[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/ai-anthropic-virtual-employees-security
You go first... (Score:2)
First, replace Anthropic's CEO.
Wow (Score:2)
Company that sells revolutionary AI innovations to investors promises revolutionary AI innovations
Re: Wow (Score:2)
Surely the first use of such a revolutionary technology would be internal to a company like anthropic itself, as they'd have the most robust understanding of how to deploy it. If they haven't done it yet in a way they can quantify and show off then there's zero chance an autonomous agent will be in a corporate environment in a year.
The agent demos I've seen aren't even good or fast... why would you pay a ton of money to train and configure one of those things just for it to be slow and error prone? You can
Tesla (Score:2)
And Teslas are going to be fully automated by 2020.
A single year? (Score:2)
omg. "we're an AI company and we're sooOOOooo behind that it's gonna be a full year before our product renders all humans obsolete. We're being sooOOOooo humble. Remember to fund our next VC round, though".
yawn..... (Score:2)
Wake me when all these AI companies actually come through with what ever they all are claiming is just weeks/months/ a year away.
or maybe they could work on fixing the increasing hallucination problem.
[1]https://techcrunch.com/2025/04... [techcrunch.com]
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/18/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-hallucinate-more/
In what way can an AI be an "employee"? (Score:2)
Current "AI" technology, including LLMs, are automated computational systems, not people. In what way would such a system be considered an "employee"?
Go through a job interview process to be hired?
Fill out a W-4 form to determine withholding?
Show proof of work eligibility in the US?
Sign up for benefits?
Receive compensation that becomes that entity's property?
Accrue sick leave and vacation time?
Participate in one-on-one's with a supervisor to determine how well they are functioning in the organizati
Good grief. (Score:2)
So, they're aware that there are all these issues with AI employees that they don't have a solution for, and rather than wait until they have the solution figured out, they're still pushing to make AI employees a thing? Damn the consequences? I like how the article implies that they need to figure out who to blame/punish for the AI agents going rogue, rather than focusing on making AI agents that don't go rogue. Fantastic. What a wonderful future they're predicting.
Marketing hype aside... (Score:2)
A good way to interpret marketing hype is to ignore the parts about timelines, and then distil the grain of truth from the rest of the message, toning down the extreme adjectives and qualifying the result.
Generative AI capabilities will surely continue to be used to an ever greater extent in the workplace. But rather than simply replacing workers, the transition will be more nuanced.
I worked for a company with a full time translator. She was brought in to meetings where her real-time translation skills were
Just like fusion- (Score:3)
It's around the corner guys I'm sure of it!
Re: (Score:2)
I can imagine some people will "hire" an AI assistant. Like you send it a message and tells it "Send a project summary to $CUSTOMER. Then have pepperoni pizza delivered at my office." Some people will find the 5 minutes saved are worth the risk of causing a disaster (or that disasters only happen to other people).