The family of Suchir Balaji say he was murdered and didn't eliminate himself. Now they have actually taken legal action against San Francisco and its police department.

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The moms and dads of departed OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji have taken legal action against the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, declaring that the genuine reason for his death was not suicide, however murder.

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

Balaji, who had worked as a researcher at OpenAI, was found dead in his San Francisco house last November. Attorneys say Balaji's parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, requested even more investigation into his death however were told the case was already closed.

"The claim requires that the city, authorities department, and medical examiner release public documents kept under the Public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, lawyer for the petitioners, told Decrypt. He said that if the documents weren't provided within 10 days, and "no valid exceptions use, a claim can force their release. We will seek a court order to obtain them."

The claim claims that SFPD violated the California Public Records Act by unlawfully withholding public records of the case. Attorneys for Ramarao and Ramamurthy likewise argued that the examination into their child's death was hurried and inadequate, with officials disregarding key forensic findings and failing to resolve their ask for additional inquiry.

The claim requires the instant disclosure of all reports, pictures, and videos, along with coverage of legal costs.

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not translate and enforce the law properly, 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 helped OpenAI collect and utilize "enormous quantities" of information taken from the web without authorization.

According to the claim, wiki.rrtn.org in December, Balaji's family worked with forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a personal autopsy. In his report, Dr. Cohen determined 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 small left-to-right angle, totally missing out on the brain before lodging in the brainstem, according to the match. Dr. Cohen determined a contusion on the back of Balaji's head, which he said raised even more concerns about the circumstances of his death.

The San Francisco Police Department did not right away react to an ask for comment by Decrypt.

The claim called out the circumstances of Bilaji's death. His body was discovered a week after The New york city Times discussed the whistleblower in a court filing associated to its claim against OpenAI.

Despite Balaji's revelations, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on the New York Times' claims. Speaking at the newspaper's yearly DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.