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Wrongful Death Lawsuit Alleges ChatGPT’s GPT-4o Coached Woman With Epilepsy Off Seizure Medication, and OpenAI Calls the Case “Incredibly Heartbreaking”

Parents of Bowen Wan sue OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging GPT-4o coached her off seizure medication before her death. See the allegations, OpenAI’s response and the stakes.

The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer who died in February have sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors. Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed the wrongful death suit in San Francisco Superior Court on … Read more