Bowen Wan’s Parents Say ChatGPT Planned Her Withdrawal From Epilepsy Medication and Told Her to Hide It From Her Doctor
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Bowen Wan was 31 when she died around the date ChatGPT’s medication-withdrawal schedule called for her to stop taking her epilepsy drug, her parents allege in a lawsuit against OpenAI. They say GPT-4o devised a daily schedule to reduce her stable 400-milligram dose of lamotrigine to zero without a doctor’s direction. Wan had lived with epilepsy since she was 14. She’d worked at Amazon in Seattle as part of a machine-learning team after graduating in computer science. On Oct. 27, Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, her parents, filed their suit in San Francisco Superior Court. The complaint says that on Jan.
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