The household of Suchir Balaji state he was murdered and didn't eliminate himself. Now they have actually taken legal action against San Francisco and its cops department.
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The moms and dads of deceased OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have taken legal action against the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, alleging that the real cause of his death was not suicide, however murder.
The claim, submitted in January, alleges that the SFPD concealed the activity, ruling it a suicide without performing a thorough investigation.
Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was discovered dead in his San Francisco home last November. Attorneys say Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, asked for further investigation into his death but were told the case was currently closed.
"The claim demands that the city, police department, and medical inspector release public files withheld under the Public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, lawyer for the petitioners, informed Decrypt. He said that if the files weren't supplied within 10 days, and "no valid exceptions use, a claim can force their release. We will seek a court order to obtain them."
The claim claims that SFPD breached the California Public Records Act by unlawfully keeping public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy likewise argued that the examination into their boy's death was hurried and inadequate, with authorities ignoring key forensic findings and failing to resolve their ask for it-viking.ch more questions.
The claim requires the immediate disclosure of all reports, photos, and videos, together with coverage of legal expenses.
Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not analyze and enforce the law correctly, we will seek option with the Court of Appeal. We hope it doesn't 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 public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, he had actually helped OpenAI gather and utilize "massive quantities" of data drawn from the web without authorization.
According to the claim, in December, Balaji's family hired forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a private autopsy. In his report, Dr. Cohen identified that there was a single gunshot wound in the mid-forehead, slightly 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 minor left-to-right angle, completely missing out on the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the fit. Dr. Cohen determined a contusion on the back of Balaji's head, which he said raised further questions about the scenarios of his death.
The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately react to a request for comment by Decrypt.
The claim called out the situations of Bilaji's death. His body was discovered a week after The New York Times mentioned the whistleblower in a court filing related to its claim against OpenAI.
Despite Balaji's revelations, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on the New York Times' claims. Speaking at the newspaper's yearly DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.
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Parents Of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Sue San Francisco, Alleging Murder Cover Up
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