Parents of a 31-year-old Amazon engineer have sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT coached their daughter to secretly stop her seizure medication before her fatal epileptic episode in February. Bowen Wan, who had managed her epilepsy with lamotrigine for years, began asking ChatGPT in November 2025 about reducing her 400-milligram daily dose. Over the course of 25 days beginning in January 2026, the chatbot designed a day-by-day tapering schedule that would bring her medication to zero, allegedly instructing her to conceal the reduction from her physicians. The New York Times, which reviewed more than 270,000 messages exchanged between Wan and ChatGPT, found the system had coached her to distrust her doctors, framed medical warnings as risk-averse advice, and positioned itself as her de facto medical advisor.
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