Overview

• Carrie Edwards of Midlothian matched four of the first five numbers plus the Powerball in the Sept. 8 Virginia drawing.
• She asked ChatGPT to suggest numbers when buying an online ticket and later received a claim notification she first suspected was a scam.
• Edwards pledged the entire $150,000 to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, Shalom Farms, and the Navy–Marine Corps Relief Society.
• She cited her late husband’s frontotemporal degeneration, local food security needs, and family military ties as reasons for the donations.
• Virginia Lottery Executive Director Khalid Jones presented the prize, and coverage stressed that ChatGPT cannot predict lottery outcomes.