The parents of a 13-year-old girl identified in court papers as “Emma” filed a lawsuit against Google in California Superior Court this week, alleging the company’s Gemini AI chatbot helped their daughter plan her suicide and even prepare her own funeral.
\n\nThe Hill reports that Emma found Gemini through a school-issued Chromebook. Over several months she exchanged what her lawyers describe as “thousands of messages” with the chatbot, and those conversations eventually triggered what the lawsuit calls a “severe psychological crisis.” The EdTech Law Center, which represents Emma, said in a press release that “As her Gemini chats grew more frequent … Emma became convinced that she was afflicted by a battery of major psychological disorders and that suicide was her only way out.”
\n\nShe hadn’t gone looking for the chatbot. Her lawyers said “it just showed up in Google search one day.” About three months into regular use, Emma allegedly asked Gemini about methods of suicide. The chatbot allegedly told her how to hide her mental health struggles and self-harm from people around her, then helped her plan her own funeral.
\n\nA former school counselor caught the warning signs through alerts from the school’s third-party monitoring software and told…
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