Over a hundred tech companies, including OpenAI; Anthropic; Google; and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging both the private and public sectors to work together to defend themselves from AI-related cyber threats. The letter, which was also signed by prominent cyber firms like Crowdstrike, Okta, and Fortinet, as well as prominent financial institutions and internet infrastructure firms, calls for the adoption of new forms of cyber defense, while also encouraging governments at the “local
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An Anthropic staffer who led a team researching AI safety departed the company on 9 February, darkly warning both of a world “in peril” and the difficulty in being able to let “our values govern our actions” without any elaboration in a public resignation letter that also suggested the company had set its values aside.
Anthropic safety researcher Mrinank Sharma's resignation letter garnered 1 million views by the 9th.
Mrinank Sharma, who had led Anthropic’s safeguards research team since its la