corporate governance

OpenAI's Safety Exits Prove Safety Was Never the Point The head of safety is leaving OpenAI. Again. And this time, the company isn't even pretending it matters. Per recent reporting, Johannes Heidecke's departure is part of a broader restructuring that folds the safety function into a newly combined research-and-safety leadership role. The framing is clinical: "integration." The subtext is blunt: safety doesn't warrant its own seat at the table anymore. What once looked like governance is now just another product input, managed by whoever's also running the science team. This isn't the first time an OpenAI safety chief has walked.…