Description: 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.
Editor Notes: 01/16/2026: The complaint dates the start of Wan's ChatGPT-guided medication taper to this day. 02/12/2026: The medical examiner's estimated date of death. 02/14/2026: A family friend found Wan dead at home, according to the complaint. 10/27/2026: Wan's parents filed a wrongful-death complaint in San Francisco. 11/08/2026: Incident ID created.
Entités
Voir toutes les entitésAlleged: OpenAI , Large language model developers et Chatbot developers developed an AI system deployed by OpenAI et Chatbot users, which harmed Bowen Wan , ChatGPT users , People seeking medical advice , People with epilepsy et Epistemic integrity.
Statistiques d'incidents
ID
1814
Nombre de rapports
2
Date de l'incident
2026-02-12
Editeurs
Daniel Atherton
Rapports d'incidents
Chronologie du rapport
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Qun Wan was in the middle of a heated call with his daughter, Bowen Wan, when the phone suddenly went silent.
The conversation, in early February, had started like most of their regular check-ins, a ritual that had kept them connected after…
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R éponse post-incident de Frederick Schenk, Benjamin S. Schenk, Laura Marquez-Garrett, Matthew P. Bergman, Justin Olson
AIID editor's note
This abridgment of the 98-page complaint retains selected numbered allegations about Wan's medication taper, the medical examiner's findings, and the wrongful-death claim. It omits other paragraphs and claims, figures an…
Variantes
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