--- title: "Anthropic Debuts Tool for Your Boss to Spy on Your Claude Chats" description: "Anthropic is hoping its new workplace AI-surveillance tool can give it a boost with enterprise customers ahead of its IPO." date: "2026-11-03" modified: "2026-11-03" authors: - name: "Joe Wilkins" job_title: "Correspondent" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jwilkins.md" url: "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claude-surveillance-ai-chats-reports" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Ethics" - "Future Society" - "Privacy" --- # Anthropic Debuts Tool for Your Boss to Spy on Your Claude Chats ![A photo of a man in an office looking at a laptop and drinking coffee.]() *Shutterstock / Futurism* Anthropic seems hellbent on making itself one of the most hated companies among white collar workers. The AI lab behind the chatbot Claude has announced a new feature, "Smart Reports," which is meant to allow managers to scrape and analyze their employee's workaday interactions with Anthropic 's various AI products. According to Anthropic's Smart Reports [support page](), the tool will let bosses generate summaries based on "how a team uses Claude" in order to "report on the work getting done" throughout the day. Anthropic claims that its system will anonymize sessions, though it remains to be seen how secure this system is in practice. (Anthropic's previous foray into "anonymized" data was a privacy disaster, as the information was [easily de-anonymized]() using common large language models.) Smart Reports isn't just about monitoring individual chat sessions. As Anthropic's support page makes clear, management can use Smart Reports to sort their workers' AI output by overall cost as well as the chatbot's output, allowing direct oversight over employee's perceived efficiency when using AI tools. The new feature seems to be part of Anthropic's drive to scoop up enterprise-level contracts as it looks ahead to [its IPO](). Corporate customers account for a [reported 80 percent]() of Anthropic's total business, while individual consumer subscriptions make up the rest. That being the case, Anthropic's performance on the stock market depends almost entirely on how successfully it can court enterprise customers with products like Smart Reports — the ultimate utility of which remains to be determined. **More on Anthropic:** *[Cult of Anthropic Insiders Rumored to Be Worshipping Claude as a God]()* ## Author At Futurism, I focus on the intersection of technology and power — examining the economics, history, and politics behind today’s dystopian headlines. As a writer, I’m interested in topics ranging from AI’s impact on labor to startups nobody asked for. My prior work includes bylines in Jacobin, Verso, and Blue Labyrinths. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Forbes, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, Time, The Nation, Mother Jones, The Verge, and Wired. I grew up in Michigan, attending Central Michigan University as well as Ball State University, where I earned a master of music. I now live in Brooklyn with my girlfriend and our cat Ziti. On weekends, you can find me hunched over a cold pint arguing geopolitics with the other transplants. ### Author social links [Bluesky]() ## More - [Anthropic Just Sent Shockwaves Through the Entire Stock Market by Releasing a New AI Tool]() - [Anthropic Says Claude Turned Evil for a Bizarre Reason]() - [Claude Leak Shows That Anthropic Is Tracking Users’ Vulgar Language and Deems Them “Negative”]() - [Anthropic Caught Secretly Spying on Users]() - [Anthropic Reports User to the Police]() - [Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike]() - [After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War]() - [OpenAI Pleads With Companies to Actually Pay for ChatGPT]()