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Family, officials urge inquiry into OpenAI whistleblower’s death


Khanna, Fielder join Suchir Balaji’s family in calls for wider inquiry.

In recent weeks, their pleas and suspicions have begun to be echoed by some powerful people, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, right-wing provocateur and news host Tucker Carlson, Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna and San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder. Sam Altman is CEO of San Francisco-based OpenAI, which was accused in a lawsuit filed by The New York Times in December 2023 of breaking copyright laws when it was collecting data to train the model underlying its ChatGPT chatbot. In October, The New York Times published an interview with him in which he accused the San Francisco-based artificial-intelligence giant of breaking copyright laws when it was collecting data to train the model underlying its ChatGPT chatbot.

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