Parents of late OpenAI whistleblower sued San Francisco police for covering up the truth of the murder

Recently, the parents of the late OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji filed a lawsuit with the San Francisco and San Francisco Police Department, claiming that their son was not committed suicide, but was murdered. Balaji was found dead in a San Francisco apartment in November last year at the age of 26. According to the family, the police did not conduct a sufficient investigation into his cause of death, but instead sloppyly characterized him as suicide.

The lawsuit documents state that Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramamarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, had asked the police to re-invest, but were told the case was closed. . The lawsuit also requires San Francisco police to disclose all documents related to the case under the California Public Records Act, believing that the police's concealment of public records violates the law.

Balaji worked as a researcher at OpenAI and has attracted attention for revealing to the media that the company improperly uses data when training artificial intelligence platforms. Shortly before his death, he said in an interview with The New York Times that he assisted OpenAI in using a large amount of unauthorized Internet data. It is interesting to note that Balaji's body was discovered just one week after the New York Times mentioned him as a witness.

In this case, Balaji's family also invited forensic pathologist Joseph Cohen to perform a private autopsy. Cohen's report shows that Balaji's death was a gunshot wound located in the middle of the forehead, and the trajectory of the bullet did not match the suicide situation, but there were more doubts. He pointed out that there was a contusion behind Balaji's head, which further raised questions about his death.

As of now, San Francisco police have not responded to the lawsuit. Balaji's parents hope to pursue the truth through legal means to clarify the cause of his son's death and seek justice for him.