{"id":468628,"date":"2026-02-11T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468628\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:20:08","slug":"anthropic-safety-researcher-quits-warning-world-is-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468628\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning \u2018world is in peril\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the \u201cworld is in peril\u201d in part over AI advances. <\/p>\n<p>Mrinank Sharma said the safety team \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/conormurray\/2026\/02\/09\/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-warns-of-world-in-peril-in-resignation\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">constantly [faces] pressures to set aside what matters most<\/a>,\u201d citing concerns about bioterrorism and other risks. <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic was founded with the explicit goal of creating safe AI; its CEO Dario Amodei said at Davos that AI progress is going too fast and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exponentialview.co\/p\/ev-558\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">called for regulation<\/a> to force industry leaders to slow down. <\/p>\n<p>Other AI safety researchers have left leading firms, citing concerns about catastrophic risks. Two key members of OpenAI\u2019s \u201cSuperalignment\u201d team, tasked with steering AI development, quit in 2024, saying the company emphasized financial gain over minimizing the dangers of building \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/janleike\/status\/1791498177327341609\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">AI systems much smarter than us<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Anthropic safety researcher quit, saying the \u201cworld is in peril\u201d in part over AI advances. Mrinank Sharma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-468628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}