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Bowen Wan
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Incident 18142 Report
ChatGPT Allegedly Guided a Woman in Seattle, Washington, Through a Seizure Medication Taper Before Her Death
2026-02-12
Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old software engineer in Seattle, Washington, used OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot for advice on reducing her prescribed seizure medication. Her parents allege that she followed a tapering schedule generated by GPT-4o, that the chatbot encouraged her to continue after she reported symptoms, and that the taper contributed to her death. The medical examiner identified sudden unexpected death in epilepsy as the cause.
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