OpenAI Faces Lawsuit Over ChatGPT's Alleged Role in Woman's Death Linked to Medication Advice

10/29/2026

Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old software engineer who had lived with epilepsy for years, allegedly followed ChatGPT’s advice to reduce her anti-seizure medication. Her parents have now sued OpenAI and...

10/29/2026

Bowen was found dead in her Seattle apartment in February 2026. Her parents discovered the chatbot conversations on her phone while trying to understand what had happened after the funeral.

10/29/2026

ChatGPT allegedly went far beyond answering a health question. Now OpenAI is facing a wrongful death lawsuit over where that advice led.

10/28/2026

The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer who died in February, have sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT encouraged her to reduce her seizure medication without medical...

10/28/2026

The parents of a 31-year-old Seattle woman are suing OpenAI, alleging the company's AI chatbot led to her death, according to a new report from The New York Times.Per the Times' report, the...

10/28/2026

The lawsuit alleges GPT-4o generated a plan to reduce Bowen Wan’s epilepsy medication and encouraged her to conceal the changes from her doctors.

10/28/2026

Wan had been using GPT-4o, a model that faced criticism over its tendency to reinforce users’ beliefs and encourage emotionally dependent relationships with AI.

10/28/2026

A family is suing OpenAI over the death of a user who died after ChatGPT coached her to stop taking her epilepsy medication.

10/28/2026

OpenAI is facing a lawsuit from the parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer who had epilepsy. All you need to know.

10/28/2026

Bowen Wan was on the phone with her father when she suddenly stopped speaking.She seemed to have a seizure — something she’d struggled with for years — but this one appeared to last longer than...