Police in San Francisco previously ruled Balaji’s death a suicide and stated there was no evidence of foul play
The family of an OpenAI whistleblower have called for his death to be reinvestigated after it was ruled to be a suicide.
Suchir Balaji, 26, a former OpenAI engineer who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law was found dead just days before he was called to be a witness in a case, his family said.
Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26 in what police said “appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.”
The city’s chief medical examiner’s office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide but a congressman has now backed calls for an FBI investigation into the death.
His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a “happy, smart and brave young man” who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.
In a new interview with KTVU, Ramarao insisted there were things out of place in his “ransacked” apartment where his body was found four days before he was due to be called as a witness to the OpenAI case.
“The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up. His desktop was left on for three days. It’s messed up”, she added.
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