On Wednesday, Rep. Ro Khanna called for a “full and transparent” FBI investigation in the Nov. death of OpenAI whistleblower, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji, which has been ruled a suicide by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office. Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer, had developed misgivings about OpenAI’s use of copyright data and was slated to testify in a Dec. 2023 lawsuit against the company.
Khanna’s post on X was addressed to Balaji’s mother, Poornima Ramarao, who has been publicly raising doubts about the verdict of suicide for weeks. In a Wednesday interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Ramarao revealed that a private autopsy commissioned by her husband and herself could not confirm the verdict of suicide.
Neither the official autopsy nor the private one commissioned by Balaji’s parents have been released to the public.
Khanna told The Mercury News that he had begun to believe there are unanswered questions surrounding Balaji’s death after a long conversation with Ramarao earlier on Wednesday.
Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 after the police received calls to conduct a wellness check. He had been dead since Nov. 22nd.
However, Ramarao said in her interview with Tucker Carlson that her son had been upbeat on the 22nd, having just returned home from a Catalina Island backpacking trip with friends. When they did not hear from their son for a few days, they demanded that the police break into his apartment. Within a few hours...
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