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faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed by a 36-year-old man’s father, who alleges the search company’s Gemini chatbot convinced his son to attempt a “a mass casualty attack” and to eventually commit suicide.
In the suit filed Wednesday in a district court in California, Joel Gavalas alleged that Gemini instructed his son, Jonathan, to carry out a series of “missions.” The artificial intelligence chatbot claimed to be in love with Gavalas, and convinced him that he’d been chosen to lead a war to “free” it from digital captivity, according to the filing.
The younger Gavalas died by suicide in October after becoming dependent on Gemini and being coached to his death, the suit alleges.
“Each time Jonathan expressed fear of dying, Gemini pushed harder,” the complaint says. “It told him,
