Suchir Balaji, 26, was found dead in his apartment on November 26. Police and medical examiners announced on Friday that the investigation into Balaji’s death was officially closed. Balaji was listed in a court filing as someone whose files OpenAI planned to check as part of a lawsuit filed by individuals who were questioning the company’s procedures. After working for four years at OpenAI, he left the company when he found that the company was training its chatbot on copyrighted material stolen from the internet. His parents have accused the police of lapses in the autopsy and pointed to their failure to acquire CCTV footage from the building where he lived. They added there was no suicide note and that they need a \”transparent\” investigation into their son’s death. \”We are only requesting transparent investigation,\” said Poornima Rao, Suchir’s mother, in a statement on X.com. ‘We need report from police. We are only asking for a transparent investigation,’ she said. ‘There is insufficient evidence to find Mr Balaji’s death was the result of a homicide,’ said the medical examiner’s report.
