On February 14, 2026, 31-year-old software engineer Bowen Wan was found dead in her Seattle, Washington, apartment, the likely victim of severe uncontrolled seizures. Her family is now laying the blame for Wan’s death squarely at the feet of OpenAI and its ChatGPT service.

Earlier this week, Wan’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI in San Francisco Superior Court. The complaint alleges that Wan’s ChatGPT coached her to rapidly and completely taper off her current seizure medication, even encouraging Wan to not disclose what she was doing to her primary care doctor.…