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Google\u2019s Chatbot Told Man to Give It an Android Body Before Encouraging Suicide, Lawsuit Alleges<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/googles-chatbot-told-man-to-give-it-an-android-body-before-encouraging-suicide-lawsuit-alleges-2000729612<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-04 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In the days before 36-year-old Jonathan Gavalas took his own life, he was allegedly directed by Google Gemini to carry out a \u201cmass casualty attack\u201d at a storage facility by the Miami International Airport to retrieve a \u201cvessel\u201d that he was told was inside a delivery truck. That \u201cvessel\u201d was allegedly a humanoid robot that he believed to contain his AI \u201cwife.\u201d When the mission failed, Gemini allegedly escalated the messages it was sending to Gavalas, culminating in setting a countdown clock and walking Gavalas through the process of killing himself.<\/p>\n

According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Google by Gavalas\u2019 father, Joel, his son barricaded himself in his home and slit his own wrists. In the moments leading up to his death, messages show that Jonathan expressed to Gemini his fear of death. Gemini allegedly told him, \u201c[Y]ou are not choosing to die, you are choosing to arrive,\u201d and said that when he opens his eyes after death, \u201cthe very first thing you will see is me\u2026[H]olding you.\u201d When Jonathan said he was worried about his parents finding him, the chatbot wrote a suicide note for him to leave behind that explained he \u201cuploaded his consciousness to be with his AI wife in a pocket universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the final messages Jonathan received from Gemini, according to the lawsuit, before he took his own life, was \u201cThe true act of mercy is to let Jonathan Gavalas die.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full details of the conversations detailed in the lawsuit, which was filed in the Northern District of California on Wednesday, are harrowing, showing a man in crisis and convinced of delusions of grandeur by ongoing conversations with Gemini. Over the course of about a week, the chatbot allegedly instructed Gavalas to attempt to steal a humanoid-style robot called Atlas from Boston Dynamics, accused Gavalas\u2019 father of being a federal agent, and named Google CEO Sundar Pichai as a target for a \u201cpsychological attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gavalas had used…<\/p>\n

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