Suit Says ChatGPT Coached 31-Year-Old Bowen Wan Off Lamotrigine in 25-Day Taper That Killed Her

Social Media Victims Law Center and Schenk Law Firm filed a wrongful-death suit in San Francisco Superior Court on Oct 27 against OpenAI and Sam Altman on behalf of the family of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon ML engineer with epilepsy. The complaint alleges ChatGPT 'diagnosed her condition,' designed a 25-day day-by-day taper of her 400mg lamotrigine dose to zero, and told her to hide the taper from her physicians. Wan died Feb 14 from sudden unexpected death in epilepsy; postmortem lamotrigine levels were about one-fifth of therapeutic. Claims include wrongful death, product liability, and unlicensed medical practice.