The family of the OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji are urging the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe his mysterious death. The 26-year-old whistleblower was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26. According to The Guardian, Balaji’s parents are questioning the circumstances of their son’s death and refuse to believe that he died by suicide.
They are demanding the FBI investigate his death as they believe that the San Francisco police department lacks the ability to conduct a thorough investigation into a case that includes issues such as cybersecurity and whistleblower protection. “I am not grieving,” Poornima Ramarao, Balaji’s mother remarked. “I have become numb.”
Police found Balaji dead in the apartment after Ramarao failed to get in touch with her son for over three days. She eventually filed a missing complaint where she lives in Union City, about 40 miles from San Francisco. The local police then contacted San Franciso authorities, following which the search operation commenced.
“Officers and medics arrived on scene and located a deceased adult male from what appeared to be a suicide,” police said at that time. “No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation," they added.
Ramarao mentioned that it took the medical examiner 40 seconds from the time they arrived at the scene to declare it a suicide. “The reason they said is he went inside and did not come out, nobody was with him … and...
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