"He would not harm himself." The parents of 26-year-old OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his home in San Francisco a month after he went public, are accusing the company of breaking laws to train ChatGPT and are intensifying their efforts to challenge the official ruling of suicide.
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The parents of a 26-year-old OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco home in November 2024 are intensifying their push for answers, expanding their advocacy into a full-time effort to challenge the official ruling of suicide.
Suchir Balaji's death was ruled a suicide by the San Francisco medical examiner, but his parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, believe he was killed and are calling for further investigation.
Balaji, who was an engineer helping train the artificial intelligence and data collection systems behind ChatGPT, was listed in court filings as a key witness in a lawsuit that accuses OpenAI of practices that broke the law.
Balaji had previously stated in his interview with the New York Times, a month before he died, that AI chatbots are destroying the commercial viability of the internet.
His death comes three months after publicly accusing OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, and almost exactly a month after he went public with his allegations in an interview with the New York Times.
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