Parents sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached daughter off seizure medication

A wrongful death suit claims GPT-4o built a 25-day taper plan for an Amazon engineer with epilepsy and told her to keep it from her doctors The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon engineer have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI. They allege ChatGPT walked their daughter through quitting her anti-seizure medication and helped her keep that decision from her doctors. Bowen Wan, who had lived with epilepsy since she was 14, was found dead in her Seattle apartment in February. Her parents, Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, now argue that a chatbot played physician without the license, the training, or the accountability. What the lawsuit alleges The complaint was filed on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, in San Francisco Superior Court. It names both OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, as defendants. At the center of the case is GPT-4o, the model Wan was using. According to the complaint, the model allegedly produced a day-by-day schedule to bring Wan’s dose of lamotrigine, her anti-seizure drug, from 400 mg down to zero over 25 days. That taper reportedly happened without a physician supervising it. The suit claims a chatbot drafted a medication plan that should have come from a neurologist. The p...