OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
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A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.

If he truly killed himself, I am guessing he was blacklisted from his profession which is a very common retaliation against whistle blowers.

It is one of the things which is very likely to have happened.

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