Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on November 26; On Friday, the city’s forensic doctor ruled his death suicidecounteracting suspicions of his family that he had fed generalized speculation online.
Balaji arrived at the headlines in October when He accused Openai to illegally use copyrights to train their AI models. He shared his concerns publicly and provided information to the New York Times, which then appointed him as a key figure with “unique and relevant documents” in the newspaper’s demand against OpenAI. Their revelations arrived in the middle of a growing number of editors and artists. To sue OpenAi on alleged copyright violation.
A few days before his death, Balaji had been in a good mood, according to his parents, celebrating his 26th birthday and planning a non -profit organization in britcommerce learning. His sudden death caught the attention of figures such as Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson, while Congressman Ro Khanna asked for a “complete and transparent investigation.”
In fact, the death of Balaji, of a self -inflicted shot, according to the report of the San Francisco county doctor, had become a focal point in the debates about the ethics of AI, corporate responsibility and the dangers faced by the complainants in Silicon Valley. It remains to be seen if these things are unleashed now.