OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by cmiles8 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @04:58PM (#49264382)

Head of ethics at Meta then head of Ethics at OpenAI. Sorry, but if that doesn’t scream useless puffy PR positioning then I don’t know what does.

What’s next? Head of ethics for United Healthcare?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by DrewADesign on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:26PM (#49265343)

Nice to have:

  - graduate degree in ethics from an obscure diploma mill

Strongly Preferred:

  - Experience in PR
  - Crisis Management
  - Public Speaking
  - Agentic management of *flexible ethics initiatives*

All Candidates Must Have:

  - 5+ years experience as an executive character in workplace education films, or commensurate experience as a human mannequin.
  — Personal aesthetic that could be described as “dork that can afford a personal shopper.”

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by walrus01 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:03PM (#49264434)

Head of Ethics at Palantir, obviously.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by felooboolooomba on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:14PM (#49265210)

Head of not too much Ethics at Palantir, minimal really, obviously

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by sillyfluke on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:19PM (#49265262)

Subsequently named Head of Post-Ethics at Palantir.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by holmb on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:25PM (#49264715)

Possibly Head Master at the Belson Institute of Tethics.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by walrus01 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:29PM (#49264767)

Don't forget to put the special LLM trained to eliminate PII leaks in the Gavin Belson signature box.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=gavin+bel...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by pessimizer on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:25PM (#49265331)

I assume she'll go wherever Nick Clegg is working. Is Tony Blair hiring?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by pandemic_region on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @05:23PM (#49264692)

The Trump administration could use a Head of Ethics.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by smt88 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:02PM (#49265103)

There are a lot of government watchdogs, and Trump has been ignoring or dissolving them

[ Parent | on HN ]

[dead]

Re:OpenAI's Only Ethicist Reportedly Left Last Month by outside1234 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:24PM (#49265317)

Hilarious that this is the thing that gets downvoted

[ Parent | on HN ]