Claude AI does months of work in minutes, fewer humans will be needed, says Ark Invest CEO
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Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood says her team saw Claude AI automate months of pending work in minutes. The experience, she said, reminded her of the early days of personal computers in offices. But, she also suggested that rising productivity from AI could mean fewer humans are needed for some tasks.
AI tools are becoming powerful enough to finish complex office tasks in a fraction of the time they once required. Ark Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood says her team recently witnessed this first-hand when an employee used the AI system Claude to complete several automation projects that had been pending for months.
Speaking in a video uploaded on Ark Invest’s YouTube channel, Wood described the experience as a defining moment for AI inside the workplace. According to her, the situation reminded her of the early days of personal computers in the 1980s, when people gathered around a desk to see what the new machines could do. Back then, the first personal computers were fairly basic. Wood recalled how the earliest systems were capable of only simple calculations such as addition and subtraction. Yet over the years those machines went on to change how businesses operate and how work is done inside offices.
Wood believes the team recently experienced a similar moment with AI when a member of Ark Invest’s finance team began using Claude to work through a list of automation tasks.
The employee, she said, had been planning several automation projects for about six months. Instead of completing them one by one over time, he decided to test whether Claude could handle the work. The results came much faster than anyone in the office expected.
"Someone on our finance team was just blown away by how quickly he was able to automate all of these automation projects that he had lined up over the past six months," Wood said while describing the incident.
The employee carried out the work independently while the firm continues to use Palantir’s systems for its operations. According to Wood, the speed and quality of the output surprised everyone watching. The AI tool produced structured outputs such as tables and graphics that looked polished and ready to use. Team members even checked some of the calculations manually to make sure the numbers were correct.
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