This is getting out of control now...
Read this slowly.
In the past week alone:
• Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril," moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry.
• Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said "recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months."
• Anthropic's own safety report confirms Claude can tell when it's being tested - and adjusts its behavior accordingly.
• ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0. A filmmaker with 7 years of experience said 90% of his skills can already be replaced by it.
• Yoshua Bengio (literal godfather of AI) in the International AI Safety Report: "We're seeing AIs whose behavior when they are tested is different from when they are being used" - and confirmed it's "not a coincidence."
And to top it all off, the U.S. government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time.
The alarms aren't just getting louder. The people ringing them are now leaving the building.
Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic’s safeguards research team, resigned in a public letter that warns of a “world in peril”.
The letter gives no specific incident, but it frames the risk as a mix of AI and other crises that are happening at the same time.
Sharma says one of his last projects was studying how AI assistants can make people “less human” or distort humanity.
His final project was on “understanding how AI assistants could make us less human or distort our humanity.”
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