AI safety researcher quits to ‘become invisible’ and study poetry

An AI safety researcher has quit US firm Anthropic with a cryptic warning that the “world is in peril”, the BBC writes.

In his resignation letter shared on X, Mrinank Sharma told the firm he was leaving amid concerns about AI, bioweapons and the state of the wider world.

He said he would instead look to pursue writing and studying poetry, and move back to the UK to “become invisible”.

“The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote.