The household of Suchir Balaji state he was murdered and didn't kill himself. Now they've taken legal action against San Francisco and pl.velo.wiki its police department.

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

The claim, filed in January, declares that the SFPD covered the criminal activity, ruling it a suicide without conducting a thorough examination.

Balaji, who had worked as a scientist at OpenAI, was found dead in his apartment last November. Attorneys say Balaji's moms and dads, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, asked for even more examination into his death however were informed the case was already closed.

"The claim demands that the city, cops department, and medical examiner release public files kept under the general public Records Act," Joseph Goethals, attorney for the petitioners, rocksoff.org told Decrypt. He said that if the files weren't supplied within 10 days, memorial-genweb.org and "no legitimate exceptions apply, a claim can oblige 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 child's death was hurried and gratisafhalen.be inadequate, with officials ignoring crucial forensic findings and failing to address their ask for additional questions.

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

Said Geothals: "If the San Francisco Superior Court does not analyze and enforce the law correctly, 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 general public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, he had actually assisted OpenAI collect and use "enormous quantities" of data taken from the internet without permission.

According to the claim, in December, Balaji's family employed forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Cohen to perform a private autopsy. In his report, archmageriseswiki.com Dr. Cohen figured out that there was a single gunshot wound 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, forum.pinoo.com.tr as it took a trip downward at a slight left-to-right angle, entirely missing the brain before lodging in the brainstem, annunciogratis.net according to the suit. Dr. Cohen identified 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 immediately respond to an ask for comment by Decrypt.

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

Despite Balaji's discoveries, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pressed back on the New york city Times' claims. Speaking at the newspaper's annual DealBook Summit, Altman dismissed the claims.