The family of Suchir Balaji state he was murdered and users.atw.hu didn't eliminate himself. Now they have actually taken legal action against San Francisco and its cops department.

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

The claim, filed in January, alleges that the SFPD covered up the crime, ruling it a suicide without conducting an extensive examination.

Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was discovered dead in his San Francisco house last November. Attorneys state Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested even more examination into his death but were informed the case was already closed.

"The claim demands that the city, cops department, and medical inspector release public documents kept under the Public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, attorney for the petitioners, told Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren't supplied 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 broke the California Public Records Act by unlawfully keeping public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy also argued that the examination into their kid's death was rushed and inadequate, with officials ignoring essential forensic findings and failing to address their demands for additional query.

The claim demands the immediate disclosure of all reports, images, and videos, along with protection of legal costs.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not interpret and enforce the law properly, we will look for recourse 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 public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, forum.altaycoins.com he had actually helped OpenAI gather and botdb.win use "enormous amounts" of data drawn from the web without permission.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's household employed forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a personal autopsy. In his report, Dr. Cohen determined that there was a single gunshot injury in the mid-forehead, slightly to the right of the bridge of his nose.

Dr. Cohen said that the bullet trajectory was uncommon for a suicide, as it traveled downward at a small left-to-right angle, valetinowiki.racing entirely missing out on the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the fit. Dr. Cohen recognized a contusion on the back of Balaji's head, which he said raised even more questions about the circumstances of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not right away respond to a request for comment by Decrypt.

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

Despite Balaji's revelations, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pressed back on the New York Times' claims. Speaking at the paper's annual DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.