Important: Anthropic Head of AI Safety quits

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BBC: Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning

Full Headline: "AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry"

An AI safety researcher has quit US firm Anthropic with a cryptic warning that the "world is in peril".

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".

This is the sort of article that really stands brightly out from usual the daily news. It is possible the individual left for personal reasons, I have no insight beyond what is in the article.

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