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
