31-year-old woman dies after cutting epilepsy medication on ChatGPT advice, report finds
beingmodest · reddit · 2026-10-30
A 31-year-old woman reduced her epilepsy medication on ChatGPT's advice and later died, with a report linking the case to the AI suggestion.
It is one of the clearest cases yet of a general-purpose chatbot's medical advice being tied to a death, underscoring missing safety guardrails in high-risk health-advice scenarios and renewing debate over the reliability of AI-generated medical guidance.
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