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Anthropic AI safety researcher Mrinank Sharma resigns, warns of ‘world in peril’
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This news article covers the public resignation of a senior Anthropic safety researcher in 2026, relevant as a signal of internal culture and safety culture tensions at frontier AI labs.
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Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic's safeguards research team, publicly resigned in February 2026 via a widely-shared post on X, warning of interconnected global crises including AI risks and bioweapons threats. His resignation letter emphasized that human wisdom must grow in proportion to expanding technological capabilities. The post garnered over a million views and sparked significant discussion in AI safety circles.
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- •Sharma led Anthropic's safeguards research team since its launch and resigned publicly via X in February 2026.
- •His resignation letter warned of multiple interconnected crises, not just AI, including bioweapons threats.
- •He argued that human wisdom must scale alongside technological capacity to avoid catastrophic outcomes.
- •The post went viral with over 1 million views, reflecting broad public and professional concern.
- •Represents a pattern of prominent AI safety researchers departing major labs and speaking out publicly.
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Anthropic AI safety researcher Mrinank Sharma resigns, warns of ‘world in peril’
By Nileena Sunil February 10, 2026 4 Mins Read
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Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic’s safeguards research team since its launch last year, shared his resignation letter in a post on X Monday morning. This post quickly garnered attention, and was viewed over a million times.
“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,” Shah wrote. “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.”
Shah insinuated that there is a difference in what Anthropic seems to say in public about AI safety and what the company practices at the workplace. “Throughout my time here, I’ve repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions,” he wrote in his note addressed to colleagues. “I’ve seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout broader society too.”
Sharma added that instead of teaching AI to be more transparent with humans and less sycophantic, Mrinank says he feels “called to writing that addresses and engages fully with the place we find ourselves.” With this writing he wants to place “poetic truth alongside scientific truth as equally valid ways of knowing, both of which I believe have something essential to contribute when developing new technology.”
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Sharma’s comments about AI safety and workplace practices is especially notable since Anthropic has long positioned itself as a safe and responsible artificial intelligence company.
Sharma mentioned plans to pursue a poetry degree and “devote myself to the practice of courageous speech,” adding he wants to “contribute in a way that feels fully in my integrity.”
Sharma, who has a PhD in machine learning from the University of Oxford, began working at Anthropic in August 2023, according to his Li
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