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We'll go back to that story but for now let's shift our focus to that big exclusive that we are tracking here. The death of open AI researcher Suchir Balaji has sparked a heated debate in the tech world.
Sujir Balaji who was a promising and influential figure in the AI research world was found dead under
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troubling circumstances. Initially reported as a suicide, this version has been disputed by Tesla CEO Alon Musk who claims Balaji was murdered.
In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman referred to Sushi Balaji as a friend and affirmed that he believed that the death
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was a suicide. Musk's remark made on the social media platform X have ignited a fierce debate, further dividing the tech community and casting a long shadow over the incident.
Listen in to what the OpenAI CEO had to say on this.
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So, you've had you had complaints from one programmer who said you guys were basically stealing people's stuff and not paying them and then he wound up murdered. What was that?
Also, a great tragedy. Uh, he committed suicide.
Do you think he committed suicide? I really do.
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Have you looked? This was like a friend of mine.
This is like a guy that and not a close friend, but this is someone that worked at OpenAI for a very long time. I spent I mean I was really shaken by this tragedy.
I spent a lot of time trying to, you know, read everything I could, as I'm sure you and others did too, about what happened. Um,
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it looks like a suicide to me. Why does it look like a suicide?
It was a gun he had purchased. It was the This is like gruesome to talk about, but I read the whole like medical record.
Does it not look like one to you? No, he was definitely murdered, I think.
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Um, there were signs of a struggle, of course. The surveillance camera, the wires had been cut.
He had just ordered take out food, come back from a vacation with his friends on Catalina Island. No indication at all that he was suicidal.
No note and no behavior. He had just
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spoken to a family member on the phone. And then he's found dead with blood in multiple rooms.
So that's impossible. Seems really obvious he was murdered.
Have you talked to the authorities about it? I have not talked to the authorities about it.
Um and his mother claims he was murdered
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on your orders. Do you believe that?
I I'm Well, I'm I'm asking. I mean, you you just said it.
So, do you do you believe that? I think that it is um worth looking into, and I don't I mean, if a guy comes out and accuses your company of
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committing crimes, I have no idea if that's true or not, of course. Um and then is found killed and there are signs of a struggle.
I I don't think it's worth dismissing it. I don't think we should say well he killed himself when there's no evidence that the guy was depressed at all.
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Siri News8 spoke to Sushir Balaji's mother who has maintained that there seems to be foul play in the way her son was killed. Listen in.
This is perhaps for the first time that Sam Alman has spoken on camera about Such Balaji's death. In an interview to
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Tucker Carlson, he says that it is a case of a suicide. He in fact said that he was a colleague, he was a friend, we worked closely.
He said all those things but he said that uh that it is a clear case of suicide. Uh in fact he also
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pointed out that how there were no evidence to prove that uh that there was a there was a struggle etc. So he said all those things that interviews in public domain.
I want to know your uh thoughts, your comments on uh this
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interview given by Sam Alman to Tucker Carlson. A words doesn't say everything.
You should see his behavior. You should see his body language.
Every question about such every other question he looks at Tucker. Every question about Sushir, he's looking down completely and then he
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answers and he doesn't answer the questions directly. He's evasive.
That means if Takar ask one question he pushes the back to him. So he's and tons of lies.
Number one said multiple investigations.
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That's a big thing because as far as we know there was only one investigation. Correct.
Then he's saying that is December 29th police told our attorney that this is a homicide and they hand it over to homicide unit and next day same
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police called and said no it's suicide you know why it's and he said there were multiple two police report there was only one police report that were given to us now it looks like there were two yes there was one that has been altered what we've
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been given is an altered report. Do you think we can prove him by words?
You should see his behavior. You should see his behavior.
Ma'am, also I want to ask you, in fact, I did ask you this question last time also when we spoke uh that did you ever
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try to reach out to Sam Alman his office? Did he ever uh you know met you people after such such demise?
Uh did he ever came to your home uh to extend condolences? uh he reached out to me through emails.
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They're HR. Okay.
And uh he replied, "We are not in stage to communicate to him. We are not interested right now." And uh they were trying to offer something.
We uh something they send an email we have
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something offer. But what is that?
We we know something uh unethical that offer. So we didn't uh reply to that.
Yeah. I mean, no.
So, so he Sam Alman Sam Alman's office offered you something.
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You I can say it. I can say it offer a kind of indirect indication they were giving uh actually the choice of words.
You know, as far as the authorities in San Francisco concerned, the police
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concerned, they all are calling it uh a case of a suicide. Uh but obviously Suchar Balaji's fans, his family, relatives, Elon Musk, they all believe that it's a case of uh murder.
So if I ask you that what evidence you have
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right now to prove that it is uh a case of murder somebody killed such what evidence you have to convince the world to convince media to convince authority or for that matter if you tomorrow reach out to President Trump's office then
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what evidence are do you have you will put uh before him to convince him to launch or restart uh investigation into this matter? I can give you three or four points.
Number one is the wounds on the body. There's a head injury
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and the model ballistic model that's been given is he's made to sit on the floor and short from the top. That means right that means he didn't fall down.
So there's no head injury from the fall and then there's a maxillary bone fracture.
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He even his doctor who did the autopsy he said such was punched on the face we have it on the zoom we have it on the recording he cannot go back so that's the kind of situation we are in and then his whole face is twisted and
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you know what the doctor he said they're saying his his face was touching the door so it just pressed it's not true his face was not touching the door we have seen the pictures and his jeans here It's ripped.
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My colleague Sudhant Mishra was in conversation with Such Balaji's parents there. He's joining us live on the broadcast.
Sadhant, you've been tracking this case for some time now. His parents are convinced that this was a case of foul play of murder.
Now Sam Altman himself is coming out and saying no, this was suicide. Do you think in any
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way the authorities in US can be moved now or any step can be taken to do a reinvestigation? Well, uh, last I checked with the San Francisco authorities was in April and when I asked them that whether they they
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are going to reopen the case or get it reinvestigated to which they say they they told me that it was an open and shut case and uh we have already drawn uh we have already drawn the conclusion and there's no point of reopening the case. Uh now perhaps uh this case is
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again in the news or because uh Tucker Carlson spoke to uh Sam Alman and perhaps he did ask him about this particular case because uh because you know Such worked very closely with Sam Alman on Chad GPD project. In fact he was a part of its core team.
Then such
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uh left uh open AI and perhaps uh started giving media interviews and uh and you know kind of telling the dark secret of uh of AI world. In fact he gave an interview to New York Times and New York Times miscoded him.
That's what
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his parents told me. Uh where he he reportedly said that I'm ready to testify uh in the courts.
uh so uh so perhaps his parents said because of that interview uh the Silicon Valley lobby came after him and he was murdered. So that's uh the theory which parents have
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been telling me uh since uh last uh December. Um now since Samman was asked this question by Ter so this case is again in the news.
Now the patients have to say that since San Francisco authorities have closed the case uh you
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know there's more evidence that they need to collect once they will collect all those evidence then they will reach out to President Trump and Elon Musk office for the support uh they they are also going to take advice of the attorneys their attorney how to pursue this case legally uh forward but they
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need more time because right now none of the authorities there or for that matter the those authorities attorneys have given report in their favor in parents favor. So so you know that is what is is stopping them to reach out to President
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Trump directly or Elon Musk for that. So they're waiting, they're buying more time.
They are they're collecting evidence. They're speaking to the experts, medical experts, forensic experts perhaps how to uh take this case forward.
But all they said to me was that Sam Alman lied. In fact, Sam Alman
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did try to offer them some stocks in his company to remain silent. Perhaps that's what they are alleging.
But at that point in time, they refused taking any money or stocks in in Sam Alman's company. and uh after which there was no
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contact between Cam Altman and uh and Such's family. Siddhan, thank you so much.
Sadhan there reporting on the Suchil Balaji case and the latest that has come up uh revelations made by the parents to Sidhan that Sam Utman's company in fact offered them shares and they interpreted that it was a bribe to make them keep
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quiet. We'll keep an eye on that