OpenAI founder Sam Altman recently spoke about the death of Suchir Balaji, an OpenAI researcher-turned-whistleblower while facing an interrogative conservative commentator, who during an interview on Wednesday (September 10), asserted that the 26-year-old did not commit suicide, as the police said, but was murdered.
Altman referred to Balaji as “like a friend” of his and even said against the interviewer’s onslaught that he had not done many interviews where he had been accused of murder.
Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson brought up the deceased whistleblower’s complaints against OpenAI while he was alive.
“You 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 asked, pointing at Balaji’s death.
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Altman responded by saying, “Also a great tragedy. He committed suicide.”
When Carlson asked Altman whether he thought Balaji committed suicide, he reiterated the same.
“He was like a friend of mine. This is like a guy that, not a close friend, but this is someone that worked at Open AI for a very long time. I was really shaken by this tragedy. I spent a lot of time trying to, you know, read everything I could as I'm sure...
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