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Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobs
While there’s no evidence linking AI to mass layoffs, the tech has already ‘changed worker psychology’
W hen artificial intelligence researcher Mrinank Sharma quit his job at Anthropic earlier this year, the news rippled across the internet. In his resignation letter, posted on X and viewed 15.3m times, Sharma warned of a world “in peril” from the technology he had helped build.
“It is clear to me the time has come to move on,” he wrote. His next move: a poetry degree.
In the months following Sharma’s resignation, AI industry defectors and workers outside of Silicon Valley alike have echoed his sentiments.
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