Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

What happened: The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached her to taper off her seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before Why it matters: The suit joins a line of cases against OpenAI, including the August 2025 lawsuit by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine. The family argues OpenAI could have made medical advice off-limits, as it does for some other content. OpenAI said the case involved an older version of ChatGPT and that newer models are better at recognizing when a situation needs urgent attention.

The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, sued OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached her to taper off her seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before

The suit joins a line of cases against OpenAI, including the August 2025 lawsuit by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine. The family argues OpenAI could have made medical advice off-limits, as it does for some other content. OpenAI said the case involved an older version of ChatGPT and that newer models are better at recognizing when a situation needs urgent attention.