Chloé Bakalar
Chloé Bakalar is an AI ethicist who served as head of ethics at OpenAI, a role she departed in August 2026 after less than a year. Prior to OpenAI, she was the chief ethicist at Meta from 2019, where she developed the company's approach to applied AI and generative AI ethics. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and was a postdoctoral associate at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy, and she previously served on the faculty of Temple University from 2018 to 2024.
“OpenAI's head of ethics, Chloé Bakalar, left after less than a year on the job.”
Source→“The author bolds two specific names: Johannes Heidecke (head of safety) and Chloé Bakalar (head of ethics). Listing them separately and in bold amid a broader wave of departures implies these are not routine liquidity-driven exits — they carry qualitatively different implications for OpenAI's internal culture as it approaches IPO scale.”
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