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Anthropic Enhances Claude with New App Connections and Advanced Research Capabilities
Anthropic has introduced two major features for its Claude AI chatbot: Integrations, which allows users to connect external apps and tools, and Advanced Research, an expanded web search capability that can compile comprehensive reports from multiple sources. These features are available to subscribers of Claude's premium plans and represent Anthropic's effort to compete with Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Skynet Chance (+0.05%): The integration of AI systems with numerous external tools and data sources significantly increases risk by expanding Claude's agency and access to information systems, creating more complex interaction pathways that could lead to unexpected behaviors or exploitation of connected systems.
Skynet Date (-3 days): These advanced integration and research capabilities substantially accelerate the timeline toward potentially risky AI systems by normalizing AI agents that can autonomously interact with multiple systems, conduct research, and execute complex multi-step tasks with minimal human oversight.
AGI Progress (+0.08%): Claude's new capabilities represent significant progress toward AGI by enhancing the system's ability to access, synthesize, and act upon information across diverse domains and tools. The ability to conduct complex research across many sources and interact with external systems addresses key limitations of previous AI assistants.
AGI Date (-3 days): The development of AI systems that can autonomously research topics across hundreds of sources, understand context across applications, and take actions in connected systems substantially accelerates AGI development by creating practical implementations of capabilities central to general intelligence.