Anthropic's Claude Can Now Use Your Computer To Finish Tasks
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/03/24/1649222/anthropics-claude-can-now-use-your-computer-to-finish-tasks
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> Users can now message Claude a task from a phone, and the AI agent will then complete that task, Anthropic [3]announced Monday. After being prompted, Claude can open apps on your computer, navigate a web browser and fill in spreadsheets, Anthropic said. One prompt Anthropic [4]demonstrated in a video posted Monday is a user running late for a meeting. The user asks Claude to export a pitch deck as a PDF file and attach it to a meeting invite. The video shows Claude carrying out the task. [...]
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> Anthropic cautioned that computer use "is still early compared to Claude's ability to code or interact with text." "Claude can make mistakes, and while we continue to improve our safeguards, threats are constantly evolving," Anthropic warned. The company added that it has built the computer use capability "with safeguards that minimize risk," and that Claude will always request permission before accessing new apps. Users can use Dispatch, a feature it released last week in Claude Cowork. That lets users have a continuous conversation with Claude from a phone or desktop and assign the agent tasks.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/24/anthropic-claude-ai-agent-use-computer-finish-tasks.html
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/28/0510226/clawdbot-has-ai-techies-buying-mac-minis
[3] https://claude.com/blog/dispatch-and-computer-use
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAauIR6JFps&t=71s
What could possibly go wrong? (Score:2)
I don't trust agentic AI to do what I want it to do.
Re: (Score:2)
Agreed, but are they actually using agentic ai, or did they just vibe code a copy of dragon dictate commands and hope no one would notice?
Re: (Score:2)
There's a difference?
"Claude can make mistakes" (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, don't you just HATE it when you tell it to attach a pitch deck to the email, and instead it attaches your entire porn collection? I know I do...
Re: (Score:2)
It totslly clogged up my bosses inbox, because it sent it in 10MB bites. So I had to come over in the middle of the night and fix that for her. Gross.
naw (Score:1)
I'd have to run Claude first.
Your real identification (Score:1)
Claude could be AGI and I wouldn't give them money until they give up on connecting my real identification with my usage.
Oh, the things we do to avoid writing ARexx (Score:1)
AI hasn't shown itself to be reliable when "merely" working with text. (Admittedly, a hard problem.)
I would have to be willfully stupid to believe it somehow magically gets more reliable when the text does something .
Has anyone tried this? (Score:1)
Go tell your AI to open an app for you and see how long it takes it to do so. I think I could find the exe file on my Program Files folder faster.
Everything bad about MS Copilot... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is everything that was wrong with Microsoft Copilot except even worse because it's cloud based. The idea of allowing a cloud-based service to remote control your computer (especially since most people operate their computer with full admin access) is crazysauce. There are already plenty of stories about LLMs permanently deleting code and other work product, and then saying "oops you're right that was a mistake on my part", Giving them essentially unfettered access to your local filesystem? Not for this little black duck.
Distributed Data Center? (Score:3)
So they want to use my electricity and my computing cycles to do their work? Just think of how many data centers we won't have to build after we've farmed it all out to the customers. Brilliant!
Just me? (Score:3)
Am I the only one who thinks anyone who puts this on their system is out of their damn mind? Unpredictable actions, potential backdoors that not even the creators know about, backdoors they do know about, purposeful telemetry, accidental telemetry, overheating, bandwidth usage, power usage...
Re:Just me? (Score:4)
Just wait until you hear someone talking to Claude on their phone, then interject with, "Hey Claude, order 5 tons of surströmming at highest available price, same day delivery."
Either Claude fails and the person realizes it doesn't necessarily do as told, or it succeeds and the person realizes it's a really really bad idea.
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> Just wait until you hear someone talking to Claude on their phone, then interject with, "Hey Claude, order 5 tons of surströmming at highest available price, same day delivery."
> Either Claude fails and the person realizes it doesn't necessarily do as told, or it succeeds and the person realizes it's a really really bad idea.
Relevant Xkcd [1]Listening [xkcd.com]. :-)
[1] https://xkcd.com/1807/
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I'm with you. One thing that made my butt twitch was, "Users can now message Claude a task from a phone, ..." -- a phone -- not specifically your phone, etc... Is this text or voice or through a dedicated app? What's the security on this? I can't imagine ever wanting an AI to control my PC, especially using remote instructions from "a phone". This is a recipe for personal disaster. This AI crap is getting out of hand.
I use Claude Code from my phone all the time (Score:2)
I use the Termius app on my phone, SSH to my workstation, run tmux attach -d to attach to the tmux session in which I'm running Claude, then tell it to do stuff. It can only do stuff that can be done via the command prompt, HTTP requests or MCP integrations (Gmail, Drive, Confluence, Jira, etc.), but that covers a lot of ground. "Only what I can do from the command prompt" is not much of a limitation.
I've told Claude to write a design doc in Confluence (which I reviewed and shared with others to get fee
Sure... give agents my permissions... (Score:2)
Let them modify my files. What could possibly go wrong?
Example (Score:4)
> a user running late for a meeting. The user asks Claude to export a pitch deck as a PDF file and attach it to a meeting invite. The video shows Claude carrying out the task.
Sounds like mid-level management drone work. Next step: Claude handles the meeting presentation. One entire management tier wiped out.
I'm OK with this.
No API (Score:2)
This feels pretty handy for applications that don't have API hooks that are painfully slow (I'm looking at you, Adobe Experience Manager). Could just get Claude to automate things that would require a human to run the interface and have it grind away at tasks 24/7.
At What Cost? (Score:2)
Having spun up openClaw, I have come to realize that it and this Claude agent are token guzzling machines. openClaw burns through tokens just sitting at idle with its "heartbeat" AI query. That occurs every 30 minutes by default. This Claude feature likely won't be much different.
One big difference between this Claude feature and openClaw is that Claude is only Claude. Where as openClaw allows you to use multiple different AIs singularly or simultaneously. It's a Swiss Army Knife type gateway to different A
Can it ... (Score:5, Funny)
Can it click "I am not a robot" checkboxes for me?