Anthropic’s Claude AI can now take a huge step in your email inbox, with the ability to not only interact with Gmail, but send emails on your behalf without asking you first.
A Claude connector has been available for Google Workspace for quite some time now, offering users the ability to help manage their Gmail inbox, Google Calendar events, and Google Drive management as well. A notable omission on Gmail, though, has been the ability to actually send the email.
That’s changing now, as Claude can now reply to an email, sending that email without your input and on your behalf. You still have to ask Claude to perform the action, but asking the AI to reply to an email can just send the response sight-unseen.
Anthropic explains:
Ask Claude to reply to a thread, and it drafts and sends the response. You control when it needs your approval.
You get to pick whether or not Claude needs approval before hitting send on an email, but it’s a big step forward for what the assistant can do on your behalf in the context of Gmail.
On a support page, Anthropic says that asking for approval is the default setting, while also clarifying that Claude can also forward emails as well.
Send, reply to, and forward emails from Gmail. By default, Claude asks for your approval before each of these actions. On Team and Enterprise plans, owners decide whether members can allow these actions to run without asking each time.
This functionality is only available on paid Claude plans. Would you use it?
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