ChatGPT originater OpenAI on Friday reacted to whistlebreduce Suchir Balaji’s death, saying that he was a “cherishd member” of their team. The Sam Altman-led company’s statement comes days after the mother of Mr Balaji – who was set up dead in his San Francisco apartment in November – criticised and accparticipated OpenAI for her son’s death.
“Suchir was a cherishd member of our team and we are still heartbroken by his passing. We progress to sense his loss proset uply. We have accomplished out to the San Francisco Police Department and have recommended our aidance if it’s needed. Law applyment are the right authorities in this situation, and we suppose them to progress sharing refreshs as needed,” OpenAI said in a statement.
It grasped that “out of esteem”, they will not comment further on the publish.
— OpenAI Newsroom (@OpenAINewsroom) January 16, 2025
Mr Balaji, who died in November, had turned a whistlebreduce aacquirest OpenAI. He had accessiblely liftd righteous troubles about the AI enormous’s rehearses.
An initial allotigation endd that Mr Balaji’s death was an act of self-injury. However, since then, his family has called for an FBI allotigation. They also highairyed disjoinal lapses and alleging that Mr Balaji was killinged. Folloprosperg this, the San Francisco Police Department reuncovered the case as an “dynamic allotigation”, but did not split any further details.
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Suchir Balaji’s mother’s claims
Earlier this week, Mr Balaji’s mother Poornima Rao alleged that OpenAI ended her son to “hide someleang they want nobody to understand”. According to her, Mr Balaji had write downs aacquirest the ChatGPT originater and knew what they were up to.
In an intersee with American commentator Tucker Carlson, Ms Rao said, “My son had write downs aacquirest OpenAI. They strikeed him and ended him. Some write downs were even ignoreing after his death…My son honord his birthday a day before he died. What more do we need to give on account that he was in a phired mood?”
She also accparticipated OpenAI of hushing up the allotigation and any possible witnesses.
“Everybody is suppressed, nobody is ready to come up and inestablish the truth. Even the attorneys have been made to say that it is a self-injury,” she said.
In another intersee with an swayr on X, Ms Rao accparticipated OpenAI of flunking to recognise her son’s contributions to their flagship product, ChatGPT. But what irritateed him was that there was no recognition for his toil until he passed away. Even now, there’s no acunderstandledgment from OpenAI of his contributions. That’s very unblessed,” she telderly X participater Mario Nawfal.
Mr Balaji toiled at OpenAI for proximately four years before he resigned in 2023. In his resignation, Mr Balaji had conveyed dissatisfaction with the company’s shift to a for-profit model.
