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Mrinank Sharma Resigns From Anthropic For Poetry
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Mrinank Sharma, an AI safety researcher at Anthropic, resigned effective February 9, 2026, and posted a cryptic note on X referencing Rilke and William Stafford. He said he will pursue a poetry degree and criticized a gap between Anthropic’s public AI-safety commitments and internal practices, highlighting workplace values tensions of interest to AI safety observers.
