Anthropic: Virtual employees will arrive next year

In a recent interview with Axios focusing mostly on security issues, Anthropic said «virtual employees» will be a step up from using mere «agents» on corporate networks.

This will be the next AI innovation, said Jason Clinton, the company’s chief of information security.

Whereas agents can focus on specific, programmable tasks, acts with some autonomy and of course require oversight, a «virtual employee» takes it a step further, with having their own memories and their own corporate accounts and passwords.

This is a major headache for cybersecurity, Clinton further explained, about oversight and hackability of the new employees.

Go read the full story here – at Axios, and check out Anthropics research on agents.