Anthropic’s new Personal Finance feature connects Claude to your bank account to help with your money - XDA
By Google News Personal Finance ·
How far would you trust an LLM with your data? It's something we've had to come to terms with quickly, as AI companies are rapidly rolling out models that can do much, much more than the ones released just a few months ago.
Well, Anthropic seems to believe that Claude is ready to help guide you through your finances, and while it cannot make any changes or payments of its own, I'm not sure if I'm ready for Claude to see how much I spend on trading cards every month.
Over on the Claude Blog, Anthropic explains its new feature, called Personal Finance. This gives Claude access to your bank account details and lets you ask questions about what's happening to your money. Here's an example Anthropic gave of how Claude can help out:
"Say it's late in the month and payday is still 10 days away. When you ask Claude, "Where did my money go this month?" it adds up your spending across the accounts you connected and sorts it by category. In this example, that comes to $4,309.37, with more than half going to rent and utilities and $1,024.51 to food and drink."
You can then ask follow-up questions, such as whether that's more than usual and how much you'd have until the next payday. Interestingly, Anthropic says that Claude can also keep an eye out for any oddities, such as surprise bills or a charge that hit twice, so you know exactly what's going on.
Of course, attaching Claude to your bank account sounds a little worrying, but Anthropic makes it very clear that Claude can only read your bank data. It can see "the bank's name, each account's name, type, and last four digits, balances and credit limits, and up to two years of transactions," but it can't make transactions for you, and it doesn't use any data it pulls from your finances to train Claude.
If you'd like to try…
Originally published by Google News Personal Finance
