Open AI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar departed the company, as first reported by the Financial Times. Her departure follows a series of high-profile exits at Open AI, including Johannes Heidecke (Head of Safety Systems) and Joshua Achiam (Chief Futurist). The company has reorganized its safety, product, and research teams multiple times since ChatGPT launched in 2022.

Bakalar's primary focus was on ethical approaches to model development and human-AI interaction. She was the only dedicated ethicist at the company. Before joining Open AI, she served as Chief Ethicist at Meta (November 2021 to August 2025) and holds academic positions at Princeton, UCL, Temple, and the University of Pennsylvania.

She highlighted the need for broader ethical conversations, stating: "The kinds of questions that AI ethics brings up, are the same kinds of questions that people have been asking for centuries." This reflects a broader trend of AI firms hiring philosophers from academia, as noted by The Economist.