Dead woman's family sues after ChatGPT allegedly guided her off seizure medication

The Seattle-based engineer was facing an Amazon layoff and the possible loss of her U.S. work authorization when she turned to the chatbot for help with her treatment.

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The family of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Chinese software engineer who died after reducing her epilepsy medication, is suing OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.

In the wrongful-death lawsuit, filed Oct. 27 in San Francisco, Bowen’s parents, Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, allege that the generative artificial …