Former OpenAI researcher turned whistleblower Suchir Balaji has been found dead in an apparent suicide in a San Francisco apartment.
According to authorities, officers reported to a San Francisco apartment on Buchanan Street on November 26 to conduct a “wellbeing check”.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a deceased male, and reported “no evidence of foul play”.
“Officers and medics arrived on scene and located a deceased adult male from what appeared to be a suicide,” the San Francisco Police Department shared in a statement, per The San Francisco Standard.
“No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation.”
Doubling down on the SFPD’s statement, the director of the office of the city’s medical examiner David Serrano Sewell told the publication: “The manner of death has been determined to be suicide.”
Back in October, Balaji became vocal regarding his concerns about copyright and fair …