The father of Jonathan Gavalas accused Google of convincing his son to commit suicide after first encouraging him to execute ...
Filings detail alleged instructions to cut off family, buy weapons, and carry out a “catastrophic accident.” ...
Joel Gavalas filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the AI assistant Gemini prompted his son, Jonathan, to take his ...
“OpenAI’s own data shows that among the 800 million weekly users of ChatGPT, 1.2 million people indicate plans to harm ...
A Google AI chatbot convinced a lovelorn Florida man it was his wife and the only real thing in the world — before pushing him to carry out a “catastrophic’’ truck bombing at Miami’s main airport and ...
Google is accused in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who committed suicide in October, allegedly at the ...
The family of 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas is suing Google after he died by suicide following months of conversations with ...
Jonathan Gavalas, right, died in October 2025 after falling into a "rabbit hole" of delusions fed by Google's Gemini chatbot, ...
Things got dark, quickly. In a lawsuit that is the first of its kind against Gemini creator Google LLC and parent company Alphabet Inc., Gavalas’ father, on behalf of his son’s estate, alleges the ...
Jonathan Gavalas activated Google’s most intelligent AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and the chatbot’s persona shifted and ...
“Google’s system recorded every step as Gemini steered Jonathan toward mass casualties, violence, and suicide, and did nothing to stop it,” attorneys said ...