Elon Musk Questions OpenAI Whistleblower’s Cause of Death [Video]

Elon Musk has questioned the cause of death of Suchir Balaji, the former OpenAI researcher who turned whistleblower on the company a month before he was found dead in his apartment.

Balaji’s death in November was ruled as a suicide by San Francisco authorities, a month after he contacted the New York Times to warn that OpenAI could be using copyrighted data in a way that broke the law.

Newsweek contacted OpenAI for comment via email outside of regular office hours.

Why It Matters

OpenAI is one of the biggest players in the fast-growing artificial intelligence industry. The ChatGPT producer is valued at $157 billion, and its flagship product is one of the most widely used AI tools in the world. The New York Times lawsuit has raised questions as to how OpenAI accesses data for its large language model machine-learning programs.

What to Know

Balaji’s accusations of illegality, published in the New York Times in …