On the Dash:
- GM’s chief artificial intelligence officer, Barak Turovsky, resigned after less than a year in the role.
- His departure shifts GM’s AI team under the manufacturing engineering department.
- Turovsky is the second high-profile Silicon Valley recruit to leave GM in recent weeks.
General Motors’ chief artificial intelligence officer, Barak Turovsky, has resigned after less than a year in the role. He announced his departure in a LinkedIn post on Sunday.
“I just wanted to share that as of today, I am no longer with GM,” he wrote. “I will be taking a little sabbatical to work on some exciting new ideas.”
Turovksy joined GM in March as the automaker’s first chief artificial intelligence officer. The creation of the new role marked a significant step in the automaker’s commitment to expanding AI integration across its business. He and his team were responsible for advancing AI capabilities within GM’s vehicle lineup as well as its broader operational processes. With his departure, the AI team will now report to the manufacturing engineering team.
Turovksy previously held prominent roles in Silicon Valley, leading AI teams at Google and Cisco Systems. Earlier, he worked at IBM, PayPal and Microsoft.
Turovksy’s exit is the second high-profile departure of a Silicon Valley recruit in recent weeks. Dave Richardson, who joined the company in September 2023 as senior vice president of software and services engineering, left last month following organizational restructuring.
