By Colin Kruger
Publication Date: 2026-02-06 18:00:00
This week, tech investors had a visceral experience with this horror movie motif, in which the heroine realizes that the terrifying phone calls are coming from her house.
They had to look at their software investments and ask themselves, “What if artificial intelligence came to eat us, not help us?”
The aha moment came from a seemingly innocuous release from an AI darling from Anthropic called Claude Cowork, a productivity agent for the legal world that helps automate tasks.
You can imagine the thought process that followed: What if this agent AI tool didn’t just replace paralegals? What if it replaced the software tools that law firms currently use?
