31-Year-Old Engineer Suspected to Have Died After Stopping Medication on ChatGPT's Advice; Parents Sue OpenAI
31-year-old Chinese engineer Wan Bowen died after stopping the anti-epileptic drug lamotrigine on the basis of ChatGPT's advice to reduce her medication; her parents have sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that GPT-4o practiced medicine without a license. The report states that she expressed concerns about reducing her medication 158 times, and that ChatGPT repeatedly explained them as the body's adjustment process; the medical examiner determined the cause of death to be sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Multiple experts in Shanghai pointed out that general-purpose large models should not independently issue medication or discontinuation plans, and that AI in medicine needs to draw a clear boundary between auxiliary reference and clinical decision-making.
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