A young and gifted engineer died after a ChatGPT bot she trusted told her to reduce her anti-seizure medication, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman’s parents.
Bowen Wan, 31, was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 14, but she managed the debilitating condition throughout her life with the help of medication.
Wan was a prodigy from a rural town in China who was admitted to elite schools in the country before moving to the US halfway through college and graduating from Arizona State University with a computer science degree.
She later moved to Seattle and got a job as a machine-learning software
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