The parents of the late OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji are looking for answers.
Balaji, 26, was found dead inside his San Francisco apartment last month.
The San Fransisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death as a suicide.
“I was the last person to talk to him,” Balaji’s father said at a press conference this weekend.
“He was happy, not depressed or anything. It was his birthday week. He made plans to see us in January.”
“How can anyone believe that there was no suicide note left?” he continued. “We have seen the blood shots in the bathroom, signs of fight.”
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji didn’t kill himself. pic.twitter.com/zEJX9bhGJk
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 29, 2024
His mother, Poornima Rao, claims he was the victim of a planned assassination.
She wrote on the X platform:
We hired private investigator and did second autopsy to throw light on cause of death. Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police.
Suchir’s apartment was ransacked , sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like some one hit him in bathroom based on blood spots.
It’s a cold blooded mu*d*r declared by authorities as suicide.
Lobbying in SF city doesn’t stop us from getting justices.
We demand FBi investigation
Update on @suchirbalaji
We hired private investigator and did second autopsy to throw light on cause of death. Private autopsy doesn’t confirm cause of death stated by police.
Suchir’s apartment was ransacked , sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like some one hit him…
— Poornima Rao (@RaoPoornima) December 29, 2024
The circumstances around Balaji’s death are more contentious because of his public criticism of the company.
In an interview The New York Times back in October, Balaji claimed that OpenAI was violating copyright laws on a mass scale.
His comments were regularly cited within the numerous pending lawsuits against OpenAI, which accuse it of breaking copyright laws in the training of its Large Language Model (LLM) systems, most notably ChatGPT.
Elon Musk, who was an early investors in OpenAI, is among those to have filed lawsuits against the company.
As news Balaji’s passing, Musk appeared to express skepticism over the circumstances of his death.
— Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) December 14, 2024
Meanwhile, an OpenAI spokesperson said after his death that they were “devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news today and our hearts go out to Suchir’s loved ones during this difficult time.”
An independent autopsy report is still pending as the family continues to seek answers.
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