Bowen Wan’s family has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT’s parent company, claiming the bot told her to taper off her epilepsy medication, which led to her death
The family of a woman who died after she stopped taking her epilepsy medication has filed a lawsuit against an AI company they claim encouraged her to taper off taking the lifesaving drug.
Bowen Wan began messaging ChatGPT in February 2023, finding companionship in the AI bot, The New York Times reports. She was 28 and living in Seattle, far from her native rural Chinese village, Jiangsu. She asked the chatbot for medical advice after her severe epilepsy led to disability leave from her software job at Amazon.
When she was then laid off in November 2025, Wan began searching for a new job so she could maintain her green card — but was concerned that the side effects of her epilepsy medication, lamotrigine, might impact her ability to work. The lawsuit claims ChatGPT advised her to taper off taking the lamotrigine.
So, they can put up some guardrails. Why tf aren’t there guardrails around giving out medical advice? Doctors have to have insurance because they can give bad advice, they should pay up. That way, it’ll stop giving out medical advice from fucking reddit.
if you squint really hard you can read this…
Are you defending chatgpt?
They’re trying to get as many people addicted as possible
Giving them potentially lethal medical advice seems counterproductive to that goal
eh, I guess they win more people than they lose (by killing them)
Still working out the kinks. Not that it’ll matter, it seems if you can blame the AI, legally you’re good.
A few deaths is fine. There’ll always be more people.
Until the AI takes over and kills us all.
The AI or the psychiatrist?
(Not in this example, which meds are clearly working)
Ai