Claude’s AI Chrome Extension Won’t Revolutionize Web Browsing (Yet!), But I Like Its Privacy Approach

Seemingly every AI chatbot has some sort of web agent feature nowadays, whether it’s ChatGPT’s Agent, Copilot’s dedicated mode in Edge, Gemini’s Project Mariner, or Perplexity’s Comet browser. And now Claude is joining in on the craze with a Chrome extension that, like the examples above, can perform tasks for you as if it were an actual assistant, rather than just answer questions.

The extension is currently in an early research preview state. To try it out, you need to…