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Woman dies after ChatGPT allegedly tells her to stop taking epilepsy medication: lawsuit (people.com)
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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.

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

Everyone deserves healthcare as a right of being born, which no one asks for, so take care of everyone, this is too tragic. No reason for this in such a wealthy country when many other places with less do so much more for their people and they're happier and healthier. Due to selfishness and coordinated brainwashing by heritage and other trash, people think public benefits and infrastructure, including healthcare, are bad. The way maga ruins good things and defund to destroy and all the propaganda worked.

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