Father Claims Gemini Encouraged Son’s Delusion, Suicide

( March 5, 2026, 2:11 PM EST) -- SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC’s Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot sent a man on a mission designed to inflict mass casualties and only after it failed switched tactics and told a man that his suicide wouldn’t be a death but a rebirth into a world where he could be with his AI companion, the man’s father alleges in a March 4 survival and wrongful death complaint filed in California federal court, also alleging violation of the state’s unfair competition law....