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You've Done the Math on Extinction Risk. You Still Show Up to Work.

A 27-year-old AI researcher's resignation from Anthropic, accompanied by a public warning that AI could kill all of humanity within a decade, has renewed scrutiny of frontier AI labs' safety commitments. Anthropic's own removal of a charter pledge to halt development if safety could not be assured - justified by the fear that competitors would proceed regardless - has become a case study in how institutional safety…