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Sunday, April 20, 2025

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's parents claim he was shot twice in the head, first autopsy missed se - Times of India

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26, 2024 was shot twice in the head, his parents have now claimed in a shocking revelation about the apparent suicide case. His autopsy dismissed the death as a suicide from a gunshot wound but now his parents claim that there were two gunshots and the second was missed by the autopsy. Balaji died a month after revealing the company's dubious methods of training ChatGPT.
Balaji's parents claimed they both saw evidence of two gunshots, neither of them immediately fatal, Daily Mail reported.

Claim of a second gunshot

Dr Daniel Cousin in his new report said a second bullet entered through the mouth, though no clear entry wound was seen. But it is lodged in the back of the throat at the skull base. "This bone stopped it and it did not cause any damage likely, perhaps it traveled through the air passage of the mouth to the back of the throat without causing problems," the second autopsy report said.
Balaji's parents claimed the second autopsy revealed injuries to their son's tongue that couldn't have been caused by the gunshot to his forehead, which travelled at an odd downwards angle, missed his brain, and lodged in the back of his neck.
"The tongue shows extensive laceration and discoloration over the margins, with a centralized, nearly oval-shaped defect at the distal," the report read. His mother Poornima Ramarao also claimed Balaji had a broken cheekbone along with the...



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