OpenAI's 2026 executive departure count reaches 13, and r/singularity assembled the list

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A 119-upvote r/singularity thread names COO Brad Lightcap (August, per CNBC August 11), CRO Denise Dresser (August, under a year in role, replaced by Wiz's Dali Rajic), head of data centers Chris Malone (August 25, per CNBC and TechCrunch, after under 18 months), robotics/hardware lead Caitlin Kalinowski (March), head of ethics Chloé Bakalar (July), head of safety systems Johannes Heidecke (July), chief futurist Joshua Achiam (July), and safety team lead Sandhini Agarwal (July). Business Insider's tally for the year is 13. The concentration in safety and ethics roles is what the thread fixates on; the top comment (142 upvotes) offers the mundane counter-explanation that these people are now worth $20M+ and are pre-IPO.