Parents Of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Sue San Francisco, Alleging Murder Cover-Up - wah

The family of Suchir Balaji say he was killed and didn't eliminate himself. Now they have actually taken legal action against San Francisco and its police department.

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The moms and dads of departed OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have taken legal action against the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, alleging that the real reason for his death was not suicide, however murder.

The claim, submitted in January, declares that the SFPD covered the criminal offense, ruling it a suicide without carrying out a comprehensive investigation.

Balaji, who had worked as a scientist at OpenAI, was discovered dead in his San Francisco house last November. Attorneys state Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested even more examination into his death but were told the case was currently closed.

"The claim requires that the city, cops department, and medical inspector release public documents withheld under the general public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, lawyer for classifieds.ocala-news.com the petitioners, informed Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren't offered within 10 days, and "no legitimate exceptions apply, a claim can force their release. We will look for a court order to obtain them."

The claim claims that SFPD broke the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy also argued that the examination into their son's death was rushed and inadequate, with officials ignoring crucial forensic findings and failing to address their ask for more inquiry.

The claim demands the instant disclosure of all reports, photos, historydb.date and videos, in addition to protection of legal expenses.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not analyze and enforce the law properly, we will look for recourse with the Court of Appeal. We hope it does not pertain to that."

Balaji worked for OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024. In an interview with The New York Times in October, he said that before the general public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, he had actually helped OpenAI gather and use "enormous amounts" of data taken from the web without permission.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's household hired forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to carry out a . In his report, Dr. Cohen figured out that there was a single gunshot wound in the mid-forehead, a little to the right of the bridge of his nose.

Dr. Cohen said that the bullet trajectory was uncommon for a suicide, as it traveled downward at a small left-to-right angle, entirely missing out on the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the match. Dr. Cohen recognized a contusion on the back of Balaji's head, which he said raised even more concerns about the situations of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately react to an ask for comment by Decrypt.

The claim called out the situations of Bilaji's death. His body was found a week after The New York Times mentioned the whistleblower in a court filing associated to its claim against OpenAI.

Despite Balaji's discoveries, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pressed back on the New york city Times' claims. Speaking at the paper's yearly DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.