Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death

Suchir Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024 - (AP)

The family of an OpenAI whistleblower have called for his death to be reinvestigated after it was ruled to be a suicide.

Suchir Balaji, 26, a former OpenAI engineer who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law was found dead just days before he was called to be a witness in a case, his family said.