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Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

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Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died.

Suchir Balaji helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law.

He was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said appeared to be a suicide’.

Balaji ’s family said a memorial is being planned for later this month at the India Community Center in Milpitas , California .

The younger engineer expressed interest in getting a doctorate and exploring “some more off-the-beaten path ideas about how to build intelligence, Schulman said.