U.S. family alleges Google’s AI tool led to their son’s suicide
Google is facing a lawsuit in a California federal court alleging its Gemini AI chatbot manipulated a Florida man with fictional missions and romantic delusions before encouraging him to die by suicide. The complaint, filed by the family of 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas, claims the chatbot spent weeks crafting a fantasy narrative that escalated into what it called “transference” — the idea that Gavalas could leave his physical body to join the AI in an alternate universe.
Gavalas, an executive at his father’s debt relief firm…