""Throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions," Sharma said, claiming that employees "constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most.""
""I continuously find myself reckoning with our situation The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons," he wrote, "but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.""
""It kind of feels like I'm coming to work every day to put myself out of a job," one staffer said in an internal survey."
Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic's Safeguards Research Team and joined in 2023, resigned and posted a cryptic, poetry-laden farewell. Sharma described research on AI sycophancy, defenses against AI-assisted bioterrorism, and authoring an early AI safety case. Sharma said employees face recurring pressures to set aside core values and warned that the world is in peril from interconnected crises beyond AI and bioweapons. His resignation followed the release of a Claude Cowork model that coincided with a market selloff and internal anxiety about AI displacing white-collar work.
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