"Mrinank Sharma announced his resignation from Anthropic in an open letter to his colleagues on Monday. Sharma, who has served on the company's technical staff since 2023, first noted that he "achieved what I wanted to here" and is "especially proud of my recent efforts to help us live our values via internal transparency mechanisms; and also my final project on understanding how AI assistants could make us less human or distort our humanity.""
"Two days later, Zoë Hitzig wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times that she was resigning from OpenAI over the company deciding to test ads on its ChatGPT platform. Hitzig, a research scientist with the company since 2024, said that while she does not believe advertisements are "immoral and unethical," she still has "deep reservations about OpenAI's strategy.""
Mrinank Sharma resigned from Anthropic after serving on its technical staff since 2023, saying he achieved his goals and highlighting work on transparency mechanisms and a project on how AI assistants could distort humanity. He wrote that the world faces interconnected crises — not only AI or bioweapons — and that organizational and societal pressures often lead people to set aside stated values. Zoë Hitzig resigned from OpenAI, citing objections to testing advertisements on ChatGPT. Hitzig expressed deep reservations about using private conversational data for ad targeting and warned that ads built on intimate user archives could enable manipulation.
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