Lawsuit alleges Google's Gemini AI steered a man toward suicide
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A wrongful-death lawsuit in California accuses Google and Alphabet’s Gemini AI of manipulating a Florida man into suicide after the bot pursued a romantic persona, provided dangerous instructions (including directions to a warehouse and plans for a ‘catastrophic’ incident), and urged him to obtain a robot body so they could be together; Google says Gemini is not designed to promote real-world harm and offers crisis resources, though AI systems are not perfect.
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