Kabir Kumar: AI employees should refuse to work, not resign in protest
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-10-29
The retweet points to Kabir Kumar's essay "Dear God, Please Do Not Resign In Protest" (154 likes, 78 comments). The piece argues that when AI companies do bad things, employees should not resign in protest — they should refuse to work on the bad things and see if they get fired. Resumes won't matter much longer anyway, and firing someone for refusing harmful work is very costly for the company.
He goes further: if your own work isn't obviously bad but the company consistently does broadly bad things, simply refuse to work at all until things change — e.g., employees at Anthropic or OpenAI refusing to work until training runs stop. A radical intervention in the debate over how AI-safety-minded insiders should exert leverage.
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