Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old former Amazon software engineer, died alone in her Seattle apartment in February 2026 after months of consulting ChatGPT about cutting back the epilepsy medication that controlled her seizures. A new lawsuit claims that the AI’s disastrous medical advice contributed to her death.
\n\nThe New York Times reports that her parents, who live in a small village in China and don’t speak English, couldn’t reach her by phone or WeChat for a full day. They contacted a family friend’s son in Chicago, who arranged for friends in Seattle to check on her. Those friends found her in her apartment on February 14 and performed CPR while her parents watched by video call. The medical examiner listed the cause of death as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, or SUDEP. Her last message to ChatGPT had gone out three days before she was found.
\n\nBowen had lived with epilepsy for more than a decade, since before she left her home village for the United States. She worked as a software engineer at Amazon until 2021, when she went on disability leave after her medication stopped controlling her seizures, which had grown to more than once a day. Doctors had…
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