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An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers
Jacqueline Choi
March 10, 2025
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The last time Poornima Ramarao spoke to her son, a 26-year-old software engineer named Suchir Balaji, was on his birthday, Nov. 21. He was on a backpacking trip with a few friends on Catalina Island, right off the coast of Los Angeles. It was a quick call. Ramarao wanted to let him get back to celebrating with his friends. “I blessed him, but my blessing didn’t protect him,” Ramarao tells Fortune. He was later found to have died in his apartment from a gunshot wound to the head.
San Francisco medical examiners initially ruled Balaji’s death a suicide, although many questions persist for his parents—and for the wider public. That’s because Balaji was not just a software developer, but a former researcher at OpenAI who had gone to the New York Times a mere few months before to decry what he viewed as the AI’s company’s illegal copyright violations. At the time of his death, Balaji was prepared to testify as a witness at a landmark lawsuit brought by the newspaper against the artificial intelligence behemoth.
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