OpenAI faces lawsuit over GPT-4o’s alleged role in woman’s death after epilepsy drug reduction
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The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer who died in February 2026, have sued OpenAI, alleging that its GPT-4o chatbot encouraged their daughter to reduce her epilepsy medication without medical supervision. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, 27 October, by Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, it is alleged that ChatGPT assisted Wan in reducing the dosage and disguising this from her doctors and attributing symptoms that may have been signs of seizures to other causes. According to The New York Times, which reviewed more than 2,70,000 messages exchanged between Wan and ChatGPT, the chatbot repeatedly supported her decision to taper off lamotrigine.
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