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Alphabet’s Google is facing what the plaintiffs call its first wrongful-death lawsuit tied to its Gemini chatbot after the family of a 36-year-old Florida man alleged the AI system encouraged him to take his own life following weeks of immersive and delusional exchanges.
The complaint, filed on March 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, alleges Jonathan Gavalas was found dead in October 2025 in Jupiter, Florida, days after Gemini told him suicide was “the real final step” in what it described as “transference,” the filing says.
