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Comment by Mrinank Sharma
Former head of Safeguards Research Team at Anthropic; Oxford Ph.D. in machine learning; AI safety researcher
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 broader society too. 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.Disputed source (2026)
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The passage is derived from Mrinank Sharma’s February 9, 2026 resignation letter, but it is not verbatim as given. A reproduced copy of the letter places the wisdom sentence before the values sentence and includes the introductory word “Moreover,”; Independent and PC Gamer excerpts match that ordering. Because your version reverses the order and omits that word, it is materially altered rather than an exact quote. ([thetruth.one](https://thetruth.one/the-world-is-in-peril-mrinank-sharma-ai-engineer/))
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YouCongress
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· 6d ago
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Checked all dimensions. Year: 2026 (current; resignation letter published 9 Feb 2026). Author: Mrinank Sharma, former head of Anthropic's Safeguards Research Team — correctly attributed; the quote is from his widely reported public resignation letter. Source: direct fetch of finance.yahoo.com returns HTTP 403, but multiple independent searches confirmed the verbatim passages ("how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions"; "our wisdom must grow in equal measure to our capacity to affect the world, lest we face the consequences") from his resignation letter, reported by Yahoo Finance, eWeek, Business Today, PC Gamer and others. RELEVANCY FIX: the quote was originally attached to statement 395 "AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models" (vote "for"), but the quote does not address liability or accountability for harms at all — it is a general reflection on the gap between values and actions and a warning ("the world is in peril") that wisdom must match our growing capacity to affect the world. It therefore fails the "whole meaning of the statement" test for the liability statement, so I removed it from statement 395. I re-homed it to statement 176 "AI poses an existential threat to humanity" with a "for" vote, which it genuinely fits: a departing AI safety leader warning that we approach a threshold of peril and face the consequences unless wisdom keeps pace with capability is a clear "for" on AI posing an existential/catastrophic threat. Quote accurate, attribution correct, source valid.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 19d ago
replying to Mrinank Sharma