The parents of deceased OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji have sued the city of San Francisco and the police of San Francisco, claiming that the real cause of his death was not suicide, but murder.
The lawsuit, brought in January, claims that the SFPD has obscured the crime and declares a suicide without conducting a thorough investigation.
Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAi, was found dead in his apartment in San Francisco last November. Lawyers say that the parents of Balaji, Poornima Ramaraoh and Balaji Ramamurthy, asked for further investigation into his death, but was told that the case had already been closed.
“The lawsuit requires that the public documents of the city, the police and the medical investigator have withheld public documents under the public records act,” said Joseph Goethals, lawyer for the proposers, said Decrypt. He said that if the documents were not provided within 10 days and “no valid exceptions apply, a lawsuit can force their release. We will ask a judicial order to obtain them. ‘
The lawsuit claims that SFPD has violated the California Public Records Act by holding public registers illegal. Lawyers for Ramaraoh and Ramamurthy also argued that the investigation into their son’s death was hurried and insufficient, in which officials ignored important forensic findings and did not tackle their requests for further investigation.
The lawsuit demands the immediate disclosure of all reports, photos and videos, together with the coverage of legal costs.
Geothals said: “If San Francisco Superior Court does not correct and impose the law correctly, we will appeal to the Court of Appeal. We hope it won’t come up with 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 helped to collect OpenAI and use ‘huge amounts’ of data that were taken from the internet without permission from the internet.
According to the lawsuit, the Balaji family hired in December for a forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a private car top. In his report, Dr. Cohen that there was a single shot wound in the middle of the head, somewhat to the right of the bridge of his nose.
Dr. Cohen said that the bullet trajectory was unusual for a suicide, because it traveled down in a light left-to-right corner, so that the brain missed completely before it was placed in the brainstem, according to the suit. Dr. Cohen identified a contusion on the back of the head of Balaji, of which he said it raised further questions about the circumstances of his death.
The San Francisco police did not immediately respond to a request for comment Decodeer.
The lawsuit proclaimed the circumstances of the death of Bilaji. His body was found a week later The New York Times the whistleblower mentioned in a court application with regard to her lawsuit against OpenAi.
Despite the revelations of Balaji, OpenAi CEO Sam Altman pushed back on the New York Times‘Claims. Speaking at the annual Dealbook -top of the newspaper, Altman rejected the allegations. He further claimed that the publication against OpenAI about the use of its materials to train AI models, put the newspaper on the ‘wrong side of history’.
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