The security camera in the elevator OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji used to go to his apartment for the last time was unplugged, his family claim.
The tech prodigy, 26, was found dead on November 26 only a month after revealing the company’s dubious methods of training ChatGPT.
Balaji was found next to his bathroom door with a gunshot wound to the head and blood all over part of his apartment in San Francisco’s Mint Hill neighborhood.
His parents, Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy, insist he couldn’t have killed himself, and have shared security camera video of the last time he was seen alive.
The final footage shows him appear relaxed as he strolls to the door to collect his last meal from a DoorDash delivery at about 7.30pm on November 22.
But when he gets into the elevator to go up to his fourth-floor apartment, the footage stops as the camera inside was inoperable.