The family of Suchir Balaji state he was murdered and didn't kill himself. Now they've 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 genuine reason for wiki.monnaie-libre.fr his death was not suicide, but murder.

The claim, submitted in January, declares that the SFPD covered the criminal activity, ruling it a suicide without performing a comprehensive examination.

Balaji, who had actually worked as a scientist at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment last November. Attorneys state Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested even more investigation into his death but were informed the case was currently closed.

"The claim demands that the city, police department, and medical examiner release public files withheld under the general public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, lawyer for the petitioners, funsilo.date informed Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren't supplied within 10 days, and "no valid exceptions apply, a claim can force their release. We will seek a court order to obtain them."

The claim claims that SFPD breached the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy also argued that the investigation into their boy's death was hurried and inadequate, with officials neglecting essential forensic findings and oke.zone failing to resolve their demands for additional inquiry.

The claim requires the instant disclosure of all reports, images, and videos, classihub.in together with coverage of legal expenses.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not analyze and enforce the law correctly, we will seek recourse with the Court of Appeal. We hope it doesn't 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 public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, he had actually assisted OpenAI collect and utilize "enormous quantities" of data taken from the internet without permission.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's family hired forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a personal autopsy. In his report, Dr. Cohen figured out 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 uncommon for a suicide, as it took a trip downward at a slight left-to-right angle, totally missing 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 further questions about the situations of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not instantly react to a demand for remark 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 associated to its claim against OpenAI.

Despite Balaji's discoveries, bytes-the-dust.com OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on the New York Times' claims. Speaking at the paper's annual DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.