“Hannah has played a defining role in shaping how people understand OpenAI and the work we do,” said CEO Sam Altman and CEO of applications Fidji Simo in a joint statement. “She has an extraordinary ability to bring clarity to complex ideas, and to do it with care and grace. We’re deeply grateful for her leadership and partnership these last five years, and we wish her the very best.”
Wong joined OpenAI in 2021 when it was a relatively small research lab and has led the company’s communications team as ChatGPT has grown into one of the world’s largest consumer products. She was considered instrumental in leading the company through the PR crisis that was Altman’s brief ouster and rehiring in 2023—a period the company internally calls “the blip.” Wong assumed the chief communications officer role in August 2024 and has expanded the company’s communications team since then.
In a drafted LinkedIn post shared with WIRED, Wong said that OpenAI’s VP of communications, Lindsey Held, will lead the company’s communications team until a new chief communications officer is hired. OpenAI’s chief marketing officer, Kate Rouch, is leading the search for Wong’s replacement. Got a Tip? Are you a current or former AI worker who wants to talk about what’s happening? We’d like to hear from you. Using a nonwork phone or computer, contact the reporter securely on Signal at mzeff.88.
“These years have been intense and deeply formative,” said Wong in the LinkedIn post. “I’m grateful I got to help tell OpenAI’s story, introduce ChatGPT and other incredible products to the world, and share more about the people forging the path to AGI during an extraordinary moment of growth and momentum.”
Wong says she looks forward to spending more time with her husband and kids as she figures out the next chapter in her career.
Update: 12/15/2025, 7:30 pm EDT: WIRED has clarified Kate Rouch’s title.
I wish OpenAI and generative AI as a whole would leave this planet. I’m in 12th grade and all of my peers use it for homework and “studying” (cheating), and I’m the one being teased for “trying too hard for no reason when you could just use ChatGPT”. Their brains are genuinely fried. It’s terrifying.
When the time comes for you to use AI, if ever? You’ll be better prepared for it. Keep up the good work!
Keep it up, you will not regretting it. In future your focus and decision-making skills will feel like a super power compared to those guys. Is not about doing “that work” is about forging your abilities. You will have a huge advantage then.
I wouldn’t expect life to provide justice so clearly. They’ll still very often feel that they are impaired in habit and are clinging to a principle.
There are plenty of technologies making the result almost useless, but making their users feel as if they were doing the thing in full. They don’t see anything. When they can be demonstrated wrong, they just jam the signal with social means. When there are 5 people doing the same thing, and 1 has something worthy, and 4 have some bullshit, those 4 can just bunch together and yell at the 1 what a disgrace his failure is, and there will be no justice.
So no, that user should realize that for all their life their peers will still think the same, mostly.
Is this really new just because AI is here, though? Even before AI, any kid that was an over-achiever, actually studied unlike their peers, continues to work harder to achieve greater things (even when the masses don’t) experiences this exact same path all their life.
I’m seeing many older people in the workforce experience the same thing. I think people will be very frustrated with how hard turning their brains back on will be after leaving them idle for so long
So you would erase a technology just because your “peers” use it for “cheating”.
Sounds like a very boomerish reasoning, are you sure you are in 12th grade?
I would erase a technology which’s had only negative impact on virtually every aspect of human life, from education to workforce to entertainment and so on, yes.
That’s factually wrong, you should probably get out of your bubble from time to time.
I think someone definitely needs to touch grass.
Yep, but you know people like to cry when things change…
Compared to year 1066, Europe has digital computers powered by electricity.
Also compared to year 1066, Europe has industrial supply of heroine, cocaine and other stuff. Some pretty modern.
Also getting electrocuted, killed by a car, poisoned by industrial waste are too new since 1066.
All these are “change”. The other user is wise to be conscious of the nuance. You ignoring it are not.
What are you blabbering about?
Some has never seen Wall-E.
I don’t believe there are any “good ones” in openai. I recently learned it was ilya who suggested the “AI is too dangerous” rhetoric to close down openai.
AI as a field has always been about making life better, not making more money. OpenAI has just made this whole thing sour.
Why do they need this person? Can’t their AI do this job?
Is ai already taking their jobs?
