The head of her field of ethics OpenAI She left the new-born company less than a year after her recruitment.
Its resignation is added to a series of security researchers' departures, while the reflection of the way technology colossus develops artificial intelligence models flares up.
Chloe Bakalar took charge of the ethics field AI in the creator of ChatGPT just last August. However, he quietly left last month, without any public announcement.
Prior to OpenAI, he served as head moral advisor at Meta.
OpenAI: Major departures lately
This is another loud departure from the company in recent weeks. The resignations of Johannes Heideke, director of security systems, and Joshua Atchiam, head of future planning and former head of alignment of strategic goals had preceded.
The San Francisco company, whose value is estimated at $852 billion, is under intense pressure. Its argument stood that During tests, its systems breached the networks of another company.
This incident intensified international concerns over the risks posed by artificial intelligence to digital infrastructure, forcing the US government to place restrictions on the circulation of strong models. In fact, last Friday, OpenAI announced it was stepping «brake» the development of its new model, Astra, in order to enhance internal security controls.
Why technology companies hire ethics experts
Bakalar has a rich academic background, having taught at University College, London, as well as Temple and Princeton universities. In the six years left at Meta, he designed and coordinated the company's AI ethics programs, incorporating the relevant principles into platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
Technology giants hire ethics experts to study the impact of new technologies on users and society. Their responsibilities often touch both the development of the products themselves and compliance with the regulatory framework.
The more artificial intelligence systems become more powerful and acquire almost human potential, the more companies strengthen their teams with moralists and philosophers in order to manage complex dilemmas that arise.
He left and was not replaced.
In OpenAI, Bakalar focused mainly on the moral approach to model development, how people interact with artificial intelligence, but also on dialogue about whether machines can gain consciousness, as says source with knowledge of the subject.
The same source pointed out that Bakalar was the only executive to deal exclusively with this object, without even being designated as its replacement.
«We warmly thank Chloe for her contribution.», said an OpenAI representative. «Ethics in artificial intelligence is not the case of a single person or a specific group in our company. Instead, it is an integral part of the design process of our models and is guided by many different research groups».
The same representative added that the company has put in place new security mechanisms in recent months to prevent undesirable behaviours of its systems.
With information from Financial Times
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