India, Feb. 10 -- Mrinank Sharma, the head of safeguards research at artificial intelligence firm Anthropic, has resigned, triggering widespread debate in the tech community over whether commercial pressures are eclipsing AI safety priorities.

Sharma announced his decision in a post on X on Monday, February 9.

In his resignation note, Sharma said it had become clear to him that it was time to move on, warning that the world faces danger not only from AI but from "a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment".

"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," he wrote.

While Sharma did not cite specific incid...