OpenAI loses its AI ethics lead

OpenAI’s AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar is reportedly leaving after 12 months at the company, according to Computerworld’s summary of the Financial Times report. Bakalar previously built ethics programs at Meta and focused at OpenAI on how people interact with AI and questions around machine consciousness; the departure follows other senior exits as OpenAI prepares for an IPO. Teams following OpenAI’s model-release gate should file the staffing change as a governance-capacity signal, not proof of a policy failure: ask who owns ethics review, escalation, and release authority when the named specialist is gone.