Father sues Google after Gemini chatbot allegedly encouraged son to kill himself

A wrongful death lawsuit filed in the United States is raising new questions about the psychological risks of artificial intelligence chatbots. The father of Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old man who died by suicide in October 2025, has sued Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc., alleging that the company’s Gemini chatbot played a key role in pushing his son into dangerous delusions, Tech Crunch reported.According to the complaint, Gavalas began using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini in August 2025 for everyd ...