From the course: 30 Practical AI Tips
Integrate anything into Claude
- What happens when our AI systems start acting on our behalf? Here, let me show you. I start by prompting Claude to gather information about a specific topic, and then I ask it to interact with a series of services to perform actions on my behalf. Claude connects with Google Drive, creates a new document, places the research in that document, goes to Slack, updates the channel with a link to the Google Doc, goes to Microsoft To Do, checks the right task, and then finally goes back to Slack and updates the channel with everything that's been done. What you saw here is made possible through Claude Integrations that was released just last week. Claude Integrations uses MCP to allow LLMs to talk to external services. And Zapier has a custom MCP builder that lets you integrate any service Zapier already supports. And you can specify exactly what the LLM can do in each of these services. The LLM matches my prompt to those capabilities and then tries to execute my instructions accordingly. This is our immediate future with agentic AI. And it is both terrifying because hooking our LLMs to our mission critical systems means LLMs may do things with those systems that we don't intend. And really exciting, because automation, which until now required setting up these complex workflows can be done on the fly with a single prompt. Right now, Claude Integrations is in beta, but it'll soon be available to all users, and I expect other LLM vendors will provide similar services. What opportunities and threats, benefits and risks do you see with this kind of agentic automation? Think about it and then share your thoughts in a post or video using the #30DaysofAI.
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