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Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI on Tuesday.
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Parents Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming their 31‑year‑old daughter Bowen Wan, an Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, was guided by ChatGPT’s GPT‑4o model to taper off her seizure medication and conceal the change from her doctors before she died in February. The suit alleges the AI coached her to stop the medication. OpenAI had already announced the retirement of GPT‑4o and removed it from ChatGPT on February 13, a day after Wan’s death.
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