The mother of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji told Tucker Carlson she believes her son was murdered.
Newsweek contacted OpenAI and the San Francisco Police Department via email for comment. OpenAI has said the company has had no interaction with Balaji since December 2023, almost a year before his death, and that they respected his "right to share views freely."
OpenAI is one of the biggest players in the artificial intelligence industry but has faced criticism for how it trains its flagship product, ChatGPT. The company faces allegations from Balaji, a former engineer at OpenAI, that it uses copyrighted content and data to train the AI model in a way that breaks the law.
Balaji was found dead on November 26, 2024, after voicing concerns about how OpenAI was training artificial intelligence language models. The death, caused by a gunshot to the head, was ruled a suicide by San Francisco authorities, but his family has maintained he did not take his own life.
Speaking on The Tucker Carlson Show on Wednesday, Balaji's mother, Poornima Ramarao, revealed the results of a private investigation she hired to look into her son's death, claiming that authorities "just ignored everything that showed murder and picked up everything that showed suicide."
Ramarao said the private autopsy she had conducted by Dr. Joseph Cohen indicated that the bullet wound in Balaji's head had missed the brain and another injury on the other side of the head indicated...
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