Chloé Bakalar

Chief Ethicist, Meta

Dr. Chloé Bakalar is chief ethicist at Meta. She joined Meta (then-Facebook) in 2019, where she spearheaded and developed the company’s approach to applied AI and GenerativeAI Ethics. She continues to work across the company to lead and advance AI Ethics at Meta, which involves both (1) identifying and building understanding of the ethical considerations around Meta’s AI-powered platforms, products and systems; and also (2) designing and operationalizing ethics tooling to enable responsible decision-making and ethics-forward product work.

Bakalar’s academic research is in moral/political philosophy and public law (esp. civil rights and civil liberties), focusing on the intersection of information technology, ethics and democratic citizenship. Before joining Meta, she was a Values and Public Policy Postdoctoral Associate with appointments at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values (UCHV), Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics (CSDP). During that time, she co-founded the Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics, an interdisciplinary academic program aimed at empowering AI design and deployment in order to improve positive impacts on people and society while reducing potential risks. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from New York University.