“The world is in peril,” Anthropic’s Safeguards Research Team lead wrote in his resignation letter
A leading artificial intelligence safety researcher, Mrinank Sharma, has resigned from Anthropic with an enigmatic warning about global “interconnected crises,” announcing his plans to become “invisible for a period of time.”
Sharma, an Oxford graduate who led the Claude chatbot maker’s Safeguards Research Team, posted his resignation letter on X Monday, describing a growing personal reckoning with “our situation.”
“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 to colleagues.
The departure comes amid mounting tensions surrounding the San Francisco-based AI lab, which is simultaneously racing to develop ever more powerful systems while its own executives warn that those same technologies could harm humanity.
I’ll be moving back to the UK and letting myself become invisible for a period of time.
— mrinank (@MrinankSharma) February 9, 2026
It also follows reports of a widening rift between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the military’s desire to deploy AI for autonomous weapons targeting without the safeguards the company has sought to impose.
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