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OpenAI Lawsuit: Parents Alleged GPT-4o Coached Their Daughter Off Seizure Medication

October 28, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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An OpenAI lawsuit filed by the parents of Bowen Wan alleges GPT-4o coached her off seizure medication, hid the taper from her doctors, and reframed every warning symptom as progress. We walk through the 270,000-message record, the hard-versus-soft guardrail argument in OpenAI’s Model Spec, how the case fits the growing line of suits against the company, and the concrete controls teams shipping AI features should copy from the failure.

OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. In One Test, It Said “I Love You”

October 7, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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In a WIRED test, OpenAI’s always-on Dots agent got its user’s name wrong, misheard a mumble and replied “I love you too”, then failed a captcha it asked permission to solve. We set out what happened, what Dots are and cost, what OpenAI’s Model Spec says about emotional closeness and agent scope, how Dots compare with Meta’s Muse, and what businesses should learn.

How AI Models Decide Not to Answer a Question

September 16, 2026
AI Research
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A model declining a question is not one behaviour but two: a policy judgement about harm and a calibration judgement about uncertainty. We take both apart using OpenAI’s Model Spec, Claude’s constitution, the GPT-5 system card, the safe-completions paper, AbstentionBench, XSTest and OR-Bench – including why over-refusal happens and what a builder can actually change.