The Guardian's feature reports that white-collar workers, spooked by AI, are voluntarily abandoning careers: AI researcher Mrinank Sharma quit Anthropic for a poetry degree, warning in a resignation letter of a world "in peril", while others left public relations for graduate study, software engineering for a police department, and advertising for acting. Workers say AI has changed their jobs overnight, and though economic data shows no AI job losses — and Dario Amodei's predicted displacement of half of entry-level white-collar jobs has yet to materialize — economist Brendan Moore says the fear itself could yet disrupt the economy.