I love the easy, calm way Anthropic talks about their agentic “coworker”. It all sounds so benign. Can you imagine all the bad emails that are going to go out as a result of this?

How is using Cowork different from a regular conversation? In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder of your choosing on your computer. Claude can then read, edit, or create files in that folder. It can, for example, re-organize your downloads by sorting and renaming each file, create a new spreadsheet with a list of expenses from a pile of screenshots, or produce a first draft of a report from your scattered notes.

I mean, really, what could go wrong.