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'

When 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.