A lawsuit was filed against ChatGPT and Sam Altman over a death
In the United States, the family of 31-year-old software engineer Bowen Wan said the young woman stopped taking her epilepsy medication under ChatGPT's guidance and died...
Bowen Wan, who lives in Seattle and works as a software engineer at Amazon, began researching the effects of his epilepsy medication on cognitive abilities in order to perform better in job interviews after losing his job.
According to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco on October 27, ChatGPT’s former GPT‑4o model devised a plan to eliminate Wan’s daily 400‑milligram dose of lamotrigine in roughly 25 days.
His family alleged that the artificial intelligence guided the young woman to conceal the process from her doctor and failed to adequately consider her health concerns.
Wan was found dead at his home in February 2026. The forensic examination recorded the cause of death as an unexpected sudden death seen in patients with epilepsy. The lawsuit file noted that the level of medication in Wan’s blood was about one‑fifth of the lower limit of the therapeutic range.
Statement from OpenAI
While demanding compensation from OpenAI and Sam Altman, Wan’s family also requests additional safety measures to prevent plans that would alter medication dosages without a doctor’s approval.
OpenAI, stating that it felt deep sorrow over the incident, emphasized that ChatGPT cannot replace professional healthcare services. The company also announced that the correspondence now belongs to an old model that is no longer in use.
The allegations raised in the lawsuit have not yet been decided by the court.
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