اقرأ رسالة مغادرة قائد سلامة الذكاء الاصطناعي في Anthropic: 'العالم في خطر'

A former Anthropic employee said in a departure letter published Monday that he is leaving the company as he reckons with a "world in peril." Mrinank Sharma, who said he led the safeguards research team at Anthropic, posted on Monday a letter he sent to colleagues announcing his departure. Sharma explained why he was leaving the artificial intelligence company and outlined his future plans. "I achieved everything I wanted here," Sharma wrote, citing projects like developing defenses to reduce the risks of AI-assisted bioterrorism and a final project on understanding the effects of AI on humanity. He also said it was time to move on because he was constantly grappling with the perils of AI, bioweapons, and a "whole series of interconnected crises unfolding at this very moment." "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 wrote. He added: "Throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions. I've seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout the broader society too." Sharma said he plans to pursue work aligned with his integrity, explore a degree in poetry, and devote himself to courageous speech. Neither Sharma nor Anthropic immediately responded to requests for comment from Business Insider. Sharma is the latest Anthropic employee to publicly announce a departure. Harsh Mehta, who worked in research and development, and leading AI scientist Behnam Neyshabur, said in X posts last week that they'd left Anthropic to "start something new," while praising the company for its talent and strong culture. Dylan Scandinaro, a former AI safety researcher at Anthropic, recently joined OpenAI as its head of preparedness. Anthropic, meanwhile, has announced other recent hires, including CTO Rahul Patil, who previously served in the same role at Skype, in October. The AI company has been in talks to raise a new round of funding that could value Anthropic at $350 billion. On Thursday, Anthropic rolled out Claude Opus 4.6, an upgraded model designed to boost office productivity and coding performance, with a larger context window to handle longer documents and more complex work in a single session. Read Sharma's full letter below.