ChatGPT Told Late Epilepsy Patient to Drop Her Meds Without Telling Her Doctor, Lawsuit Claims
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old software engineer from Seattle, are suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over her untimely death. Their lawsuit claims ChatGPT's GPT-4o model instructed Wan to rapidly quit her anti-seizure medication without a doctor's supervision—a plan that doctors say would constitute malpractice if issued by a human healthcare professional.
Wan had epilepsy for many years and took lamotrigine, an epilepsy medication and mood stabilizer that, when dropped abruptly, can trigger seizures even in people who don't typically experience them. According to her parents, Wan asked ChatGPT in January 2026 how to reduce her 400mg daily dose. The chatbot allegedly fed her a day-by-day plan to stop the drug over just 25 days and encouraged her not to tell her doctor about the plan, The Guardian reports.
Wan is said to have asked ChatGPT for a lamotrigine reduction plan because she thought the medication was...
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