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Suchir Balaji’s Mother On The Tucker Carlson Show (Transcript)

Read the full transcript of Suchir Balaji’s mother Poornima Ramarao on Tucker Carlson Show. (Jan 16, 2025)

Listen to the audio version here:

TRANSCRIPT:

TUCKER CARLSON: Thank you very much for joining us.

POORNIMA RAMARAO: My son, I owe this to him.

TUCKER CARLSON: Well, this is a remarkable story. So we were connected by someone we both know. I had followed this casually in the media. I didn’t know what to make of it. Your son died in November. You commissioned an examination by a forensic pathologist, independent forensic pathologist called Dr. Dinesh Rao. I have it right here, accompanied by photographs that you took. And I don’t think any honest person looking at this would conclude this was a suicide. There’s an awful lot of evidence that it wasn’t.

I was actually shocked by it. So I want to get into the details of what may have happened. But I’d like to start, if you don’t mind, by hearing about your son. Who was he?

Suchir’s Background and Achievements

TUCKER CARLSON: How old was he? What did he do? What was he like?

POORNIMA RAMARAO: Suchir was a prodigy. From birth, we knew he was gifted. And for a living, he studied his master’s, bachelor’s in computer science from UC Berkeley, the top school. He had 4.0 GPA throughout. As soon as he graduated, he started working in OpenAI as a researcher, AI researcher.

His first project was WebGPT, for which a fresh graduate, he took the lead role. And that WebGPT turned out to be ChatGPT, an application. This was a publication of four people. One of them is Suchir. Following this, he worked at OpenAI for pre-training data. That means he was scooping up all the internet data, feeding to ChatGPT’s AI model. Following this, he worked on…

TUCKER CARLSON: Which is the fuel that it runs on.