Tucker Carlson published a new interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday in which the two men discussed some pretty dark topics. Altman also talked about his beef with Elon Musk, and it wasn’t long before the Tesla CEO chimed in on X with his own thoughts, definitively claiming that a whistleblower at OpenAI “was murdered,” in a tweet Thursday.
During the episode, Carlson and Altman talk about Suchir Balaji, a researcher at OpenAI who died on Nov. 26, 2024. Balaji had accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law a few weeks prior to his death. And while it was ruled a suicide, his mother said he was murdered.
Carlson had Balaji’s mother, Poornima Ramarao, on his podcast back in January and insisted that the 26-year-old whistleblower was murdered during his conversation with Altman.
“So you’ve had complaints from one programmer who said you guys were basically stealing people’s stuff and not paying them. And then he wound up murdered. What was that?” Carlson said.
“Also, a great tragedy, he committed suicide,” Altman said.
Carlson pressed Altman, asking if he really thought Balaji killed himself. Altman replied, “I really do.”
“This was like a friend of mine, this was like a guy that—not a close friend, but this was someone that worked at OpenAI for a very long time,” Altman continued. “I spent… I mean, I was really shaken by this tragedy. I spent a lot of time trying to read everything I could, as I’m sure you and others did, too, about what happened. It looks...
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