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.
If there will be one good thing about AI, is it will weed out the idiots and usher in an entire new technological Darwinism the likes we’ve never seen.
Yeah, because we all wanna live in a society where we have to be absolute masters of everything or else die. Is that your end goal mate ?
As much as you think Al will steer the future of humanity away from a future reminiscent of that in Idiocracy by Ecuadorian-born director Mike Judge, you are clearly forgetting that there is a whole bigger-than-you’d-think pie slice of the world of people out there who can’t read, don’t read, won’t read, and/or just don’t want to read. True idiots won’t even think of asking a computer for bad advice because they already know everything except how to use a computer.