Elon Musk weighed in Sunday on questions about the circumstances of the death of Suchir Balaji, an OpenAI whistleblower found dead at his San Francisco apartment last month.
In a thread tagging Musk on X, a person who identified herself as Balaji’s mother, Poornima Ramarao, said her family had hired a private investigator and conducted an independent autopsy “to throw light on” Balaji’s death on Nov. 26, one month after he told the New York Times he believed his former employer’s AI programs violated copyright law.
San Francisco authorities said the 26-year-old’s cause of death was suicide and that there was no evidence of foul play, but the woman, who goes by Poonima Rao on X, wrote that “Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police.” She noted that her son’s “apartment was ransacked” and that there appeared to be signs of a struggle, including evidence that “someone hit him in bathroom.”
Ramarao demanded an FBI investigation, adding that “It’s a cold blooded mu*d*r declared by authorities as suicide.”
Musk wrote Sunday on X in a reply to Ramarao that the death “doesn’t seem like a suicide.”
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