Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says She's Sent Material From Scene of Alleged Suicide for Laboratory Testing

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s autopsy report has been released to his family, who remain unconvinced that he died by suicide — and that they’re testing a strange hair sample found in his apartment. According to a joint report from the city’s medical examiner and police department that was provided to Fortune and other media outlets, investigators “found no evidence or information to establish a cause and manner of death for [Balaji] other than a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.” As she has since soon after Balaji’s untimely death — which occurred just a month after the New York Times published his claims that he’d helped OpenAI hoover up “enormous amounts” of copyrighted material to train its AI without the consent of any creators — his mother Poornima Ramarao insists there’s more to the story than authorities are letting on, especially when it comes to the official report’s claim that the young man was alone in his apartment and that there was no sign of struggle or forced entry. “There are tons of inconsistencies in [the medical examiner’s] decision,” Ramarao wrote in a post on X, seemingly referencing a previous claim she made about the discovery of a blood-covered synthetic hair at Balaji’s apartment after his death. Ramarao now says that she and her family “have sent the hair found in [the] apartment for testing.” “[Underlying] assumptions are not supporting the facts in reports,” the mother wrote, alluding to her family’s independent autopsy that found his fatal gunshot wound…Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Says She's Sent Material From Scene of Alleged Suicide for Laboratory Testing

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