Anthropic has announced Claude for Chrome. This is a browser extension that lets the AI take actions on your behalf.
OpenAI debuted its ChatGPT agent in July, and it impressed many users, even passing captcha challenges like a pro.
Anthropic’s agentic AI is currently available as a research preview, the company wants to get real-world feedback about its uses, shortcomings, and safety issues. The San Francisco-based company calls Claude for Chrome, a browser-using AI.
It is capable of performing various tasks set by a user, such as reading, clicking and navigating websites, managing calendars, scheduling meetings, drafting email responses, handling expense reports, testing new website features. It can also handle complex tasks like finding an apartment within a specific budget in a neighborhood, finding the right food based on the user’s instructions, and more.
Here is a video from Anthropic that demonstrates how Claude for Chrome works, this support page includes more details about the feature.
Anthropic admits that there are some vulnerabilities in Claude for Chrome, and that it will fix them before making the agentic AI available on a wide basis. The announcement highlights how browser-using AIs are prone to prompt injection attacks, i.e., hackers could hide instructions in websites, emails, documents to manipulate the AI into performing harmful actions like deleting files, stealing data, making financial transactions, etc. The user would not be aware of what’s happening in the background. The company says that it conducted extensive adversarial prompt injection testing, in 123 test cases, 29 different attack scenarios, and that it resulted in a 23.6% attack success rate.
Claude for Chrome isn’t free, it is currently being piloted in the Max plan, which costs $100 per month. The early preview has a limit of 1000 users, and others can join the waitlist to try the feature.
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