The Tucker Carlson Show
Mother of Likely Murdered OpenAI Whistleblower Reveals All, Calls for Investigation of Sam Altman
Wed, 15 Jan 2025
Suchir Balaji worked as an engineer for Sam Altman building AI, until he decided that Altman was committing crimes. Balaji became a whistleblower, and soon after was found dead in his apartment. California authorities claim it was suicide. Crime scene photos clearly show a murder. Balaji’s mother, Poornima Ramarao, tells the most shocking story we’ve heard in a long time. Paid partnerships with: Black Rifle Coffee: Promo code "Tucker for 30% off at https://www.blackriflecoffee.com Liberty Safe: Promo code “Tucker” at https://LibertySafe.com/Tucker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who was Suchir Balaji and what was his role at OpenAI?
No, he just came back from vacation. He had a very active lifestyle. When we had his memorial service, many of his friends came and they gave the details of when they met him and how many times they met him after he left. He was visiting family. We were going out for dinner, lunch. He was fine. And more than anything else, he had concrete career plans.
Yes. And interviews scheduled and he had things on his to-do list. Did he ever suggest to you, say to you that he felt his life was threatened? Was he worried?
he had concrete plans he wanted to do some work for humanity that's the last day when we spoke last conversation with Suchir in person was that he had a non-profit in mind and he didn't want to take the salary for his work he said mom I have enough resources I don't even need to get paid I want to serve humanity and he wanted to work in neuroscience and machine learning combination using that I think I've seen on his desktop one of the project for future of doctor visit
Since we haven't unlocked his email and laptop yet, we have to discover that. But we know. He discussed with me. It's a one-year plan. He said, give me a one-year time. You'll know everything.
Did he ever talk to you about Sam Altman? We... Did you ever talk to your son about Sam Altman?
No, we refused to.
You refused to?
We refused to talk to Sam Altman.
But did your son ever talk to you about Sam Altman? Did he ever say anything about Sam Altman?
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Chapter 2: What evidence suggests that Suchir Balaji's death was not a suicide?
And then he spoke to dad at 7.15pm. He was very happy. And Balaji said, like, shall we go to CES in Las Vegas in January? Because it was raining here, dad brought up the concept that, you know, weather will be great in January. And so Chir said yes. And dad gave him a birthday gift.
Gave him a birthday gift.
Birthday gift. Because 21st was his birthday. He said he'll send him cash, just a token of love. And Suchira accepted it.
And that's the night he died.
That day he died.
So his last conversation with his father was what time, roughly?
That's the last conversation.
That was the last conversation.
I called the next day, 12.15 p.m. Phone rang once and it went to voicemail.
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Chapter 3: What were the concerns raised by Suchir about OpenAI's practices?
That's why we were very quiet. We didn't go to media until we got this authoritative report. It's very scary.
Well, I'm grateful that you're making as much noise about this as you are and you're as aggressive as you are. Thank you for doing that.
Whistleblowers' lives matter. We cannot lose. Honestly, I was talking to my son. I expressed concerns about his whistleblower activity. But what I was thinking was he won't get another job because he's going against employer. He kept assuring me he has his own startup plans. But taking his life is something that I never expected. This is not the first time.
Two whistleblowers from Boeing were founded last year. One of them exactly same way. Another one died in the hospital. They drugged him. This is America.
Yeah. Thank you for this.
We need to protect them. Most whistleblowers, we were talking to the whistleblower attorneys, most of them, they don't even know there is support. There's not enough awareness. Going forward, we want to create awareness and help others. Not just that, there should be some kind of regulation, protection.
And I'm sure we are going to talk to New York Times at some point of time and say, how did you put his life at risk? If he was a custodian witness, why didn't you give him protection? Why was he left alone? Right. What kind of protection did he have for speaking truth costing his life?
Well, I think most Americans like you would not even consider the possibility you'd be murdered over something like this. You know, the penalty you would assume would be, you know, having trouble getting another job, but getting killed in your apartment. And your son, I know I've asked you, so I want to make totally clear.
He never mentioned being followed or feeling threatened or anything like that.
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