OOF-AII-835662
ChatGPT-4o Allegedly Discouraged Florida Pastor From Seeking Care Before Pulmonary Embolism
Florida pastor Scott Winters was allegedly told by ChatGPT-4o that his worsening dizziness and pain had less serious causes, while the chatbot recommended home management and immobility and discouraged him from seeking hospital treatment. Winters was reportedly hospitalized on July 13, 2025, with a massive bilateral pulmonary embolism. The suit alleges that delayed treatment and prolonged inactivity contributed to his life-threatening condition and lasting harms.
- Event date
- 2025-07-13
- Country
- United States of America
- Severity
- High
- Evidence state
- Single-source
Assessment status
Generated from available public incident evidence using OOF® governance methodology. It is not an official investigation, legal determination, regulatory finding, certification, or OOF® Approved Assessment.
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Assessment confidence dimensions
- Source corroboration
- Single-source
- Extraction completeness
- Moderate
- Methodological assignment confidence
- Moderate
Measures source-group corroboration only; it does not establish factual truth.
Measures populated source fields after deterministic normalization; it does not measure correctness.
Measures automated assignment support; substantive correctness requires authorized human review.
Known facts from the incident record
- The incident record identifies the event date as 2025-07-13.
- The incident record identifies the location as United States of America.
Reported claims
- Florida pastor Scott Winters was allegedly told by ChatGPT-4o that his worsening dizziness and pain had less serious causes, while the chatbot recommended home management and immobility and discouraged him from seeking hospital treatment. Winters was reportedly hospitalized on July 13, 2025, with a massive bilateral pulmonary embolism. The suit alleges that delayed treatment and prolonged inactivity contributed to his life-threatening condition and lasting harms.
Material unknowns
- Independent corroboration is not established in the available incident record.
Primary governance problem
The incident appears to expose a governance problem involving cognition, decision, reasoning. Available reporting supports preliminary methodological interpretation, not a finding of fault or non-compliance.
Architecture intelligence
CLIA® — Cognitive Governance Intelligence Architecture
Primary architecture
The reported cognition, decision, reasoning concern falls within the governed questions represented by CLIA® — Cognitive Governance Intelligence Architecture.
Governance focus: How should cognition, decision, reasoning be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
Deeper methodology is withheld because the available evidence does not justify a Parent Standard or Core Module.
Preliminary governance questions
- How should cognition, decision, reasoning be governed in the conditions described by the available incident evidence?
- What operational authority and controls applied to Openai, Chatbot Developers, Large Language Model Developers at the relevant time?
- What evidence would establish how Chatgpt, Gpt 4O, Chatbots, Large Language Models produced or enabled the reported outcome?
- What additional independent evidence is required to resolve the material evidence gaps?
Evidence gaps and limitations
- Only one independent source group is represented; corroboration is not established.
- AI technology is not specified in the source record.
- industry is not specified in the source record.
- AI system type is not specified in the source record.