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Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death

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Suchir Balaji , a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November .

His parents have questioned the circumstances of his death and refuse to believe he died by suicide.

Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy have demanded an FBI investigation into his death.

Balaji quit OpenAI in August and publicly spoke of copyright violations.

Ramarao said her son had been an upstanding human being who never said anything negative about teachers, school or colleagues. “I don’t know how I could have saved my son by teaching him to tell lies,” Ramarao said. “The ethics with which I raised him took his life today .”.