OpenAI’s Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month. She Wasn’t Replaced
OpenAI’s head ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company at some point in July after having been hired the previous August. OpenAI is, in other words, reportedly now ethicist-free. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tone with regard to the technological “singularity” has shifted a bit recently.
- ▪OpenAI’s head ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company at some point in July after having been hired the previous August.
- ▪OpenAI is, in other words, reportedly now ethicist-free.
- ▪OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s tone with regard to the technological “singularity” has shifted a bit recently.
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OpenAI’s head ethicist, Chloé Bakalar, quietly left the company at some point in July after having been hired the previous August. Before working at OpenAI, she was Meta’s chief ethicist, and established AI ethics policies for Instagram and Facebook, according to a story by the Financial Times.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000796883","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"artificial-intelligence","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"artificial-intelligence","TAGS":"ai-ethics,artificial-intelligence,openai","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); The FT’s anonymous source apparently told that…
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