Elon Musk calls it "extremely concerning" in an X post after Suchir Balaji's mother accuses OpenAI of killing her son.

Elon Musk addressed accusations made by Suchir Balaji's mother, an OpenAI whistleblower, who said her son was assassinated to stop the release of papers that implicated the AI business. Additionally, US Congressman Ro Khanna demanded an open probe into the situation.

Elon Musk has addressed claims made by Suchir Balaji's mother, an OpenAI whistleblower, that the AI company killed her son. Poornima Ramarao, Balaji's mother, claimed in a recent interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the Indian-origin whistleblower was murdered to stop the release of records that could be used against him.

The New York Times named my son a custodial witness on November 18. The custodian witness is crucial. He possessed the records that were against OpenAI.That was the 18th, 22nd, etc.He just returned the same evening from a trip to Catalina Island and Los Angeles. Poornima said on Tucker Carlson's show that they had attacked and killed him.

Musk tweeted on X that the video showed Ramarao making the accusations was "extremely concerning."

"I am heartbroken by your loss," said US Congressman Ro Khanna earlier, calling for a rigorous and open probe into the situation. I do think the FBI or another suitable organization should conduct a thorough and open inquiry into the death given your grave suspicions of foul involvement.

Suchir shot himself and died on December 14, 2024, according to police, who have not yet released an official autopsy report. According to police officials, there is "at this time, no evidence of foul play," and the medical examiner's office concluded that the death was caused by suicide.

Balaji's family claimed that there was foul play and that an FBI investigation was necessary to "discover the truth."

Suchir Balaji was who?
A major contributor to the creation of ChatGPT was Suchir Balaji, who worked at OpenAI for more than four years.

Suchir Balaji attended the University of California, Berkeley to study computer science prior to joining OpenAI. He worked as an intern at Scale AI and OpenAI during his college years.

In his early days at OpenAI, Suchir Balaji worked on WebGPT, an experimental language model that could browse the web in real time, according to his LinkedIn profile. Later on, he joined the GPT-4 pre-training team, the o1 reasoning team, and the ChatGPT post-training team.