Suchir Balaji News: Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher Suchir Balaji was found dead in his apartment in San Francisco on November 26. Due to this ‘accident’ of 26th November, it is now being said that Suchir has committed suicide.
“The initial investigation found no evidence of foul play,” Officer Robert Rueca, a San Francisco Police Department spokesman, told Forbes in an email. According to The Mercury News, which first reported Suchir Balaji’s death, Balaji was found dead in his Buchanan Street apartment on 26 November.
There were allegations of violating copyright law
According to his LinkedIn profile, Balaji worked for OpenAI from November 2020 to August 2024. Two months ago, in an interview with The New York Times, Balaji had accused OpenAI of violating copyright law.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reacted to Balaji’s death. While sharing this news he wrote ‘Hmm’. Let us tell you that he has a long standing dispute with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Many big claims were made about AI
Balaji had claimed that OpenAI’s working methods were dangerous. He had said that copyrighted material has been used without permission to train the AI model. Balaji had also repeatedly expressed concern over the ethical implications of AI. According to him, AI can harm the entire ecosystem of the Internet.
In an interview given to the New York Times, he had said that the business model of OpenAI is unstable and very news for the Internet ecosystem. He had asked those people who thought he was right to leave the company.
