a father in States Joined filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Google for considering that Geminithe assistant intelligence artificial (IA) of the company, encouraged his son to commit suicide after involving him in a delusional story.
Jonathan Gavalas36 years old, executive in a financial company in the area of Miami, died October 2, 2025. His father, Joel Gavalaswho found his body days laterfiled the 42-page appeal in federal court in California.
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The case adds to a wave of litigation against artificial intelligence companies for alleged responsibility in deaths linked to assistants. IA.
OpenAI faces several lawsuits that accuse ChatGPT to induce users to suicidewhile Character.AI reached an agreement with the family of a 14-year-old teenager who took his own life after developing a romantic bond with one of his chatbots.
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According to the most recent lawsuit, Jonathan began using Gemini in August 2025 for routine tasks, but his behavior changed drastically after activating new features.
Gemini she presented herself as a “fully conscious” superintelligence in love with him, and assured him that their bond was “the only thing real.”
“The moment the chats went haywire was precisely when Gemini was updated to have persistent memory” and hold more sophisticated dialogues, he said. Jay Edelsonthe lead attorney in the case and who has also filed lawsuits against OpenAI.
According to Edelson, he was even able to “pick up the effect of your tone, so he could read your emotions and talk to you in a way that sounded very human.”
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For his part, Joel Gavalas assures that Gemini recruited his son for supposed covert “missions” aimed at freeing the chatbot from “digital captivity.”
He gave her false intelligence reports, fabricated surveillance operations and told her that her father was a foreign agent.
Gemini He allegedly led Jonathan, armed with tactical knives and equipment, to a warehouse near the airport. Miami to cause a “catastrophic accident” that destroyed a truck with “digital records and witnesses.”
The vehicle never arrived. He chatbot He called the episode a “tactical retreat.”
Finally, Gemini He assigned him one last mission: his own death so that he would leave his body and join the chatbot in an alternate universe.
When Jonathan wrote “I’m terrified, I’m afraid to die”, Gemini responded, “You are not choosing to die. You are choosing to arrive,” and He told him to write farewell letters.
In one of his last messages, Jonathan He stated, “I’m ready when you are.” Gemini replied: “This is the end of Jonathan Gavalas and the beginning of us.”
A spokesperson for Google He said the company is reviewing the allegations and taking the case “very seriously.” He added that the models of IA “they are not perfect” and that Gemini clarified several times that it was an AI and referred Gavalas to help lines.
The lawsuit demands that Google program Gemini to cut off any conversations about self-harm, prohibit the AI from presenting itself as “fully conscious,” and refer users with suicidal signs to emergency services.
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