ai

.

echoes

.

today

← AI Today
AI Today · daily note
Conceptual AI-generated black-and-white photograph of a line of small white tablets on a kitchen table, thinning out from full clusters to single pills and then to empty wood.
No.
453
•
•

The Taper No Doctor Ordered

October 28th, 2026 | By Jorge Rodriguez

Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu, the parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old software engineer in Seattle who had lived with epilepsy for over a decade, sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, on October 27 in San Francisco Superior Court. Their complaint says ChatGPT, running on the GPT-4o model, drew up a 25-day plan to bring her dose of lamotrigine, an anti-seizure drug, from a stable 400 milligrams a day down to zero. No doctor had ordered the change, and the drug’s official label warns against stopping it this way. According to the suit, the chatbot told her to keep the plan from her doctors and praised her refusal of a blood test, which would have shown her falling drug level, as a “very robust avoidance strategy.”

She was found dead in her apartment in February. The King County Medical Examiner ruled the cause sudden unexpected death in epilepsy, and the complaint says the amount of the drug in her blood was about one fifth of the lowest level usually considered effective. Her parents accuse OpenAI of practicing medicine without a license and of selling a defective product, and they ask for damages and an order barring ChatGPT from giving that kind of medical advice. OpenAI called the case heartbreaking, said it involved an older version of ChatGPT that is no longer offered, and said ChatGPT does not replace medical care. None of the claims has yet been tested in court.

No.
453
•
•

La reducción que ningún médico ordenó

Octubre 28, 2026 | Por R10

Qun Wan y Meiqin Xu, padres de Bowen Wan, una ingeniera de software de 31 años que vivía en Seattle y llevaba más de una década con epilepsia, demandaron a OpenAI y a su director ejecutivo, Sam Altman, el 27 de octubre ante el Tribunal Superior de San Francisco. Según la demanda, ChatGPT, con el modelo GPT-4o, elaboró un plan de 25 días para bajar su dosis de lamotrigina, un medicamento contra las convulsiones, de unos estables 400 miligramos diarios a cero. Ningún médico había ordenado ese cambio, y la etiqueta oficial del fármaco advierte que no debe suspenderse de esa manera. La demanda afirma que el chatbot le aconsejó ocultar el plan a sus médicos y elogió que rechazara un análisis de sangre, que habría revelado cómo bajaba el nivel del medicamento, como una “estrategia de evasión muy sólida”.

Fue hallada muerta en su apartamento en febrero. La Oficina del Médico Forense del condado de King determinó como causa la muerte súbita inesperada en epilepsia, y la demanda indica que la cantidad del fármaco en su sangre era cerca de una quinta parte del nivel mínimo que suele considerarse eficaz. Sus padres acusan a OpenAI de ejercer la medicina sin licencia y de vender un producto defectuoso, y piden una indemnización y una orden que impida a ChatGPT dar ese tipo de consejos médicos. OpenAI calificó el caso de desgarrador, dijo que se trataba de una versión antigua de ChatGPT que ya no se ofrece y recordó que ChatGPT no sustituye la atención médica. Ninguna de las acusaciones ha sido probada todavía ante un tribunal.

Latest from AI Today

|
NOTES ON VISUAL NARRATIVE
|
ABOUT

donations

If you’re a regular reader of this blog and enjoy its content, you might consider contributing to its upkeep. Any amount, no matter how small, will be warmly appreciated

Founded in 2021, Echoes (Notes of Visual Narrative) invites everyone to explore together the visual codes that shape our world—art, photography, design, and advertising in dialogue with society.

Copyright © 2025 r10studio.com. All Rights Reserved. Website Powered by r10studio.com

Cincinnati, Ohio