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Current computer-use models require boundaries and guardrails

The current computer-use model still makes mistakes and misclicks, so users cannot leave it running unattended for extended periods. Anthropic released it first as an API rather than giving consumers direct computer control, emphasizing the need for boundaries and guardrails as capabilities improve.

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Dario Amodei, Amanda Askell & Chris Olah on AI Development and Safety

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It makes mistakes, it misclicks. We were careful to warn people, “Hey, you can’t just leave this thing to run on your computer for minutes and minutes. You got to give this thing boundaries and guardrails.” And I think that’s one of the reasons we released it first in an API form
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