Parents Of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Sue San Francisco, Alleging Murder Cover-Up
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The family of Suchir Balaji say he was murdered and didn't kill himself. Now they've taken legal action against San Francisco and its authorities department.

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The parents of departed OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have actually taken legal action against the city of San Francisco and bphomesteading.com the San Francisco Police Department, alleging that the genuine cause of his death was not suicide, however murder.

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

Balaji, koha-community.cz who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco home last November. Attorneys say Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, asked for even more investigation into his death but were told the case was already closed.

"The claim demands that the city, police department, and medical examiner release public documents withheld under the general public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, lawyer for the petitioners, told Decrypt. He said that if the files weren't offered 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 violated the California Public Records Act by unlawfully keeping public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy likewise argued that the investigation into their child's death was hurried and insufficient, with authorities overlooking essential forensic findings and failing to resolve their ask for more questions.

The claim demands the instant disclosure of all reports, archmageriseswiki.com pictures, macphersonwiki.mywikis.wiki and videos, in addition to coverage of legal costs.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not interpret 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 Times in October, he said that before the general public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, raovatonline.org he had actually helped OpenAI collect and utilize "huge amounts" of information drawn from the web without authorization.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's household worked with forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a private autopsy. In his report, Dr. Cohen determined 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 unusual for a suicide, as it took a trip downward at a small left-to-right angle, totally missing out on the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the suit. Dr. Cohen identified a on the back of Balaji's head, annunciogratis.net which he said raised further concerns about the scenarios of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately respond 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 city Times discussed the whistleblower in a court filing related 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 newspaper's yearly DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.