Can an AI chatbot be held responsible for a user’s death? A lawsuit against Google’s Gemini is about to test that

A Florida man initially began using Google’s Gemini AI platform last August for assistance with typical queries. By early October, the chatbot had driven him to commit suicide, claims a lawsuit filed against the tech giant on Wednesday.

The father of Jonathan Gavalas is suing Alphabet, Google’s parent company, for monetary and punitive damages after discovering troubling messages in the chat logs that the 36-year-old exchanged with Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google’s latest AI model at the time.