Two researchers have left Anthropic and Google, unwilling to remain inside institutions they believe are building consequential systems without adequate wisdom to govern them. Their departures surface a tension as old as human ambition itself: the gap between what we are capable of creating and what we are prepared to be responsible for. At stake is not merely corporate culture, but the question of whether the people closest to a technology's dangers can meaningfully shape its direction — or whether they must ultimately choose between conscience and proximity.