Epileptic woman dies after going to ChatGPT for medical advice; family files lawsuit against OpenAI

On Tuesday, the parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI in California state court, alleging ChatGPT effectively practiced medicine without a license by designing a dangerous medication tapering schedule.The lawsuit alleges ChatGPT coached Wan to sidestep her doctors while tapering off her anti-seizure medication, even advising her to lie to medical examiners; Wan died from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy in February.In chat logs reviewed by the Times, the chatbot advised Wan to "accept the 5mg tablet, but you know in your heart that it is for cutting the dose," while dismissing her head...