Anthropic's safety lead Mrinank Sharma resigns, warns of 'world in peril'

Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic's Safeguards Research Team, has resigned. In his resignation letter, Sharma wrote, "World is in peril. And not just from Al, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment." "[We're]...approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world," he added.