OpenAI’s Sam Altman breaks silence on whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s dying: ‘He was like a good friend of mine’

Updated on: Sept 11, 2025 02:59 pm IST

Suchir Balaji, an Indian-origin researcher who labored at OpenAI for 4 years, was discovered lifeless in his San Francisco house in November 2024.

For the primary time, OpenAI founder Sam Altman has publicly spoken in regards to the dying of whistleblower Suchir Balaji, a case mired in controversy. Altman’s remarks got here throughout a tense interview with controversial former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, who insisted that Balaji’s dying was not a suicide, as dominated by police, however “a homicide”.

Suchir Balaji was discovered lifeless in his San Francisco house in November 2024.(X/@TuckerCarlson)

At the beginning of their dialog, Carlson introduced up Balaji’s prior complaints about OpenAI. “You had complaints from one programmer who mentioned you guys had been principally stealing individuals’s stuff and never paying them, after which he wound up murdered. What was that?” Carlson requested.

To this, Altman mentioned, “Also an ideal tragedy. He dedicated suicide”. Carlson then pressed once more, asking, “Do you assume he dedicated suicide?”

“I actually do,” Altman mentioned, including, “He was like a good friend of mine. This is sort of a man that, not a detailed good friend, however that is somebody that labored at Open AI for a really very long time. I used to be actually shaken by this tragedy. I spent plenty of time making an attempt to, , learn the whole lot I may as I’m positive you and others did too about what occurred. It seems to be like a suicide to me.”

Carlson then requested, “Why does it appear to be suicide?” Altman replied, “It was a gun he had purchased”.

Carlson, nevertheless, asserted, “He was definitely murdered, I think”. He also pointed to “signs of a struggle,” cut surveillance wires, and blood in multiple rooms. “He had just ordered takeout food, come back from a vacation with his friends on Catalina Island. No indication at all that he was suicidal,” he mentioned. Carlson additionally famous that Balaji’s mom claims her son was murdered.

“I haven’t completed too many interviews the place I’ve been accused of homicide,” Altman replied.

Carlson continued to query how a suicide may contain “indicators of a battle and blood in two rooms”. “I don’t perceive how the authorities may simply sort of dismiss that as a suicide. I feel it’s bizarre,” Carlson mentioned, additional urgent Altman.

Altman then replied sharply: “You perceive how this seems like an accusation?”

Despite Carlson’s repeated insistence, Altman stood by the official findings. “I spent plenty of time making an attempt to learn the whole lot I may, as I’m positive you and others did too, about what occurred,” he mentioned.

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Who was Suchir Balaji?

Suchir Balaji, an Indian-origin researcher who labored at OpenAI for 4 years, was discovered lifeless in his San Francisco house in November 2024, simply weeks after accusing the corporate of copyright violations. Though police dominated the dying a suicide, Balaji’s household has alleged main lapses within the investigation and rejected the suicide declare.

“Everybody is suppressed. Nobody is able to come up and inform the reality. Even the attorneys have been made to inform that it’s a suicide,” Balaji’s mom, Poornima Ramarao, mentioned in a separate interview with Carlson.

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