Suchir Balaji, 26, a former OpenAI researcher was found dead in an apartment on November 26, 2024. His death was determined as a suicide by a medical examiner in San Francisco as the police didn’t find evidence of any misdeed. This remarkably sharp kid made several allegations against OpenAI including unethical business practices and copyright violations.

OpenAI is one of the world’s most authoritative artificial intelligence companies. Balaji joined OpenAI in 2020 as a researcher and contributed to the development of GPT-4. He worked with this company for four years and left it in October 2023.

In an interview with the New York Times and on his personal website, he discussed the potential negative impact of such a model on internet sustainability and ethics. He urged those who agreed with him to leave the company.

Balaji said, “I thought that AI was a thing that could be used to solve unsolvable problems, like curing diseases and stopping ageing. I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them”.

He showed his concerns about OpenAI’s practices after the release of a model in 2022. He believed that such AI technology could harm society and the internet. He claimed that the company is prioritising profit over safety and not being transparent about the associated risks of AI technologies.

He also raised his concern about the company using copyrighted data to train its models. Balaji also warned potential of using AI for creating deepfakes or spreading false information.

These shocking accusations have sparked the urgent need for ethical AI development and regulation in the industry.

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https://in.mashable.com/tech/86772/what-openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-exposed-about-ais-dark-side-before-he-was-found-dead

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-revealed-about-the-dark-side-of-ai-7254038