On November 5, Claude started letting you connect your bank accounts and cards via Plaid.

Read-only. No money transfers, no investing on your behalf.

Sounds safe. But...

Claude can't take your money.

But it can read 24 months of your transactions.

Those 24 months reveal more than you think:

Is your income stable, how much debt you have, where you live, what you spend money on.

“Not used for training” doesn't mean “not stored.”

Your data still lives in chat history, in the analysis it generates, in a link you accidentally share.

So my answer is:

Yes, but only one spending account.

Never your salary account, savings, or a high-limit card.

Anthropic didn't build this feature to take your money.

They built it so Claude understands you well enough that you won't want to leave.

What about you?

Would you dare let AI see your bank account?

#AnthropicIPO #ClaudeAI $ANTHROPIC