Fearing AI disruption, white-collar workers are quitting their jobs

'White-collar professionals are leaving established careers to pursue professions they feel are more secure or aligned with their values.' 'White-collar professionals are leaving established careers to pursue professions they feel are more secure or aligned with their values.' While there's no evidence linking AI to mass layoffs, the tech has already'changed worker psychology' W hen 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.