At $183 billion AI firm Anthropic, the stakes have always been high. Now with the stock market in a nosedive, however, some of the company’s employees are realizing they may have had a hand in tipping the first in a long series of dominoes. While AI agents — semi-autonomous AI systems like Anthropic’s Legal plugin — have yet to prove themselves in the real world, plenty of the company’s staffers are worried they’ve already crossed the Rubicon. It’s a hell of an entrance into the mainstream spotlight, and one which is already having a major impact on the markets. More on AI: Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal