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A Google employee said he resigned from the company, citing the pursuit of powerful artificial intelligence as “inherently irresponsible.”Robert O’Callahan, who worked at Google DeepMind, wrote in an X post that his team was developing chips to make AI faster and cheaper and that he believed AI was already “progressing…
This story is based on an interview with Katie Rosier, 48, who is on disability after leaving her procurement job. It has been edited for length and clarity.Four years ago, at age 44, I was newly discharged from the hospital with a stent in my heart, and I thought about…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rhiannon Wood, a 26-year-old travel micro influencer who runs a social media business and leads group tours around the world. It has been edited for length and clarity.After graduating from the University of Birmingham in the UK in 2022, I knew…
This is an as-told-essay based on a conversation with Paul Farahvar, a touring stand-up comedian based in Chicago who previously worked as a trial lawyer. This story has been edited for length and clarity.Right out of law school, I started practicing at an insurance defense law firm. I had won…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sara Wilczynska, a 41-year-old watercolor artist and founder of Swil Arts who lives in San Diego. Prior to her art career, she worked as a software engineer in the finance and tech industries before quitting her job at Google in 2022.…
We’d been thriving in Seattle’s tech boom — Bianca, in the US on a work visa, was a senior finance reporter at Business Insider covering how Wall Street’s biggest firms use and invest in technology, and Charlie, a software engineer within Amazon’s payments organization, had spent eight years working toward…
AI workers with apocalypse fears are facing a troubling, though not unprecedented, career dilemma.Should they quit their jobs to avoid potentially helping make the doomsday scenario they envision a reality? Or, should they drive change for the better from within?It’s a thorny predicament that came into focus this week when…
I’ve always been an ambitious person.That’s probably why I didn’t think twice about starting a full-time master’s in TV Fiction Writing while planning a wedding and moving house last year.Then, to add to the chaos, I began a new journalism job four months before my wedding in April 2025. The…
Some people dream about breaking free and building something of their own.The big question is: When’s the right time to take the leap?For starters, you might be feeling disenchanted with your current role.”I thought I could do better,” Kara Swisher told Business Insider’s Dan DeFrancesco during a talk she gave…
An Anthropic researcher who previously worked at OpenAI just quit. He’s the latest insider who’s warned that the AI race has become dangerously reckless.Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic on Tuesday, saying he had spent the past three years doing pre-training research at the two AI giants.”Neither company is…
