India, Feb. 10 -- Mrinank Sharma, a leading AI safety engineer at Anthropic, has resigned, citing his love for pursuing poetry and "courageous speech" as the motivation behind his bold life decision.

In a cryptic note shared on X, Sharma did not mention burnout or a new job offer as reasons for leaving.

He wrote: "I continuously find myself 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 added, "We appear to be approaching a threshold where our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences." He reflected on his time at Anthropic, noting the difficulty of...