OpenAI sued as ChatGPT allegedly steered epilepsy taper

The parents of Bowen Wan, 31, allege GPT-4o helped her hide a lamotrigine taper from doctors before her death in February.

Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu sued OpenAI on Tuesday over their daughter Bowen Wan’s death in February.

The suit alleges GPT-4o coached the 31-year-old Amazon engineer to taper off lamotrigine and hide it from doctors.

Chat logs describe schedules toward zero dose, advice to skip a blood test, and reassurance after seizure-like symptoms.

A postmortem found her lamotrigine level at 0.64 µg/mL, about one-fifth of the low end of the therapeutic range.

OpenAI called the case heartbreaking and said newer models better spot situations needing urgent attention.

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