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

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The family of Suchir Balaji say he was killed and didn't kill himself. Now they've 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, declaring that the genuine cause of his death was not suicide, but murder.

The claim, submitted in January, alleges that the SFPD concealed the criminal activity, ruling it a suicide without performing an extensive investigation.

Balaji, who had actually worked as a scientist at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco home last November. Attorneys say Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested even more investigation into his death but were informed the case was already closed.

"The claim requires that the city, cops department, and medical inspector release public documents kept under the general public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, wiki-tb-service.com lawyer for the petitioners, informed Decrypt. He said that if the files weren't provided within 10 days, and "no legitimate exceptions use, a claim can oblige their release. We will seek a court order to obtain them."

The claim claims that SFPD the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy likewise argued that the investigation into their boy's death was rushed and inadequate, with officials overlooking essential forensic findings and failing to address their requests for further inquiry.

The claim demands the immediate disclosure of all reports, images, wiki.whenparked.com and videos, in addition to coverage of legal costs.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not analyze and impose the law properly, we will seek option 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 city Times in October, he said that before the general public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, he had actually helped OpenAI collect and use "massive quantities" of information taken from the internet without approval.

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

Dr. Cohen said that the bullet trajectory was uncommon for a suicide, pattern-wiki.win 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 questions about the situations of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately react to a request for comment by Decrypt.

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

Despite Balaji's discoveries, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on the New York Times' claims. Speaking at the newspaper's annual DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.