OpenAI loses its AI ethics lead

OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined the company, the Financial Times reported . Bakalar has maintained a silence and has yet to update her LinkedIn profile , but if her departure is confirmed then it will add to the list of OpenAI executives who have quit in recent months. Other departures include robotics chief Caitlin Kalinowski , who left the company over its deal with the US Department of Defense; researcher Zoe Hitzig, who quit in a very public way by writing an article in the New York Times; and Johannes Heidecke, head of safety systems. OpenAI’s