ChatGPT developer OpenAI broke silence on the death case of whistleblower Suchir Balaji. The tech giant said, “Suchir was a valued member of our team and we are still heartbroken by his passing. We continue to feel his loss deeply.” It added, “We’ve reached out to the San Francisco Police Department and have offered our assistance if it’s needed. Law enforcement are the right authorities in this situation, and we trust them to continue sharing updates as needed. Out of respect, we won’t be commenting further”.
This comes a day following Suchir Balaji’s mother in an interview with political analyst Tucker Carlson claimed that her son’s death is not a suicide case but a murder. In the interview with Carlson, Suchir’s mother, Poornima, made some big claims and charges over her son’s death case and the secrecy in the world of AI. When asked about how she feels if her son has killed himself, recalling the time when the San Francisco medics declared that her son died by suicide, Poornima said, “My son celebrated his birthday a day before he died. What more do we need to give on account that he was in a happy mood?” adding that he even received birthday gift from his father the same day he was later found dead.
Making a grave allegation against OpenAI, Poornima said, “My son had documents against OpenAI. They attacked him and killed him,” adding that “some documents were missing” after his death. Poornima also accused the ChatGPT maker of hushing up the investigation and any possible witnesses, saying “Everybody is suppressed, nobody is ready to come up and tell the truth. Even the attorneys have been made to say that it is a suicide.”
Continuing her verbal attack against OpenAI, Suchir Balaji accused the authorities over the investigation, Poornima also said, “It took them (authorities) more than 14 minutes to determine the cause of death and tell me that it was a suicide.””I knew that my son was dead by looking at the white van. In the evening, they returned the keys to me and told me that I could pick up the body tomorrow.”
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