aceParents of woman who died of seizure after ChaGPT misguidance sue OpenAI
A woman’s death from an epileptic seizure after she received dangerous advice from a chatbot has prompted her parents to sue OpenAI earlier this week. The legal action is the latest lawsuit that in which plaintiffs allege that a bot provided counsel to a user that ultimately led to their death. In this case, Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Chinese software engineer living in Seattle, sought advice from ChatGPT after Amazon fired her, according to the lawsuit. She needed to find a new job to obtain permanent residency a…
A lawsuit alleges ChatGPT gave a Seattle woman an unprescribed plan to taper her anti-seizure drug, told her to hide it from her doctor and dismissed seizure symptoms, before she died of a seizure.
The account rests on allegations in a complaint; OpenAI disputes relevance to current models, saying Wan used a version that is no longer available, and no court has ruled on the claims.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-11-01
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