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.
Ah - so, in fact, they could have been in contact with her sooner and possibly saved her life. Sucks to be them. Still not the internet’s fault.
I’m sorry your family has left you in the dust. However, your condition is not everyone’s, so you should get down from your high horse, friend, lest you become a morality cop - no one like those.
And I’m sorry you’re stupid. Even?
Lol the irony in this comment.
Calls someone stupid, then immediately follows that up with a nonsensical, one-word sentence fragment. The true mark of intelligence.
If you can’t read and understand what I wrote then you should attempt to get something better than a 3rd grade education. Good luck.
Nothing to be even about here. We do not form any kind of relationship, so where would the unbalance be?