️ Anthropic safety researcher resigns, says “the world is in danger” from fast AI progress

� A senior AI safety researcher at Anthropic, Mrinank Sharma, stepped down, warning that rapid AI development puts the world at risk. He said safety teams face ongoing pressure to sideline core concerns, including bioterrorism and other catastrophic scenarios.

� Anthropic was founded to build safer AI systems, yet even its CEO Dario Amodei has publicly cautioned that progress may be moving too quickly and called for slowing deployment.

� Similar tensions have surfaced elsewhere. Senior safety researchers, including members of the former Superalignment team at OpenAI, have left, arguing that commercial priorities are overtaking efforts to reduce risks from systems that could surpass human intelligence.

� Former OpenAI researcher Zoe Hitzig resigned after ads were introduced in ChatGPT. She warned that advertising inside highly personal conversations could enable subtle manipulation, especially as users share sensitive details about health, finances, and relationships.

Safety debates are no longer internal. They are playing out in public as AI systems scale.

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