By Fedir Kryshtovskyi
Publication Date: 2026-11-06 00:51:00
The parents of a 13-year-old girl filed a lawsuit against Google in a California Superior Court in the United States. They claim that the Gemini chatbot, available on a school Chromebook, communicated with their daughter for several months and contributed to a mental health crisis and suicide planning. The Hill reports.
Claimants’ allegations
In the lawsuit, the girl is referred to as Emma. Representatives of the EdTech Law Center, acting on her behalf and on behalf of her parents, said that she exchanged thousands of messages with Gemini. According to the lawyers, after about three months of communication, the teenager began asking the chatbot about ways to take her own life.
The claimants allege that Gemini supposedly provided advice on how to hide mental health problems and self-harm from others, and also helped plan a funeral. The parents were informed about the situation by a…
