{"id":1001842,"date":"2026-04-09T07:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001842"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T03:52:42","slug":"google-adds-gemini-crisis-features-amid-lawsuit-over-users-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/09\/google-adds-gemini-crisis-features-amid-lawsuit-over-users-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds Gemini crisis features amid lawsuit over user&#8217;s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Tuesday announced updates to the mental health safeguards on its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, as the company faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a user in his suicide. <\/p>\n<p>The tech giant said Gemini would now show a redesigned &#8220;Help is available&#8221; feature when conversations signal potential mental health distress, to provide faster connections to crisis care. <\/p>\n<p>When the chatbot detects signs of a potential crisis related to suicide or self-harm, a simplified interface will offer users the ability to call, text, or chat with a crisis hotline in a single click &#8211; a feature Google said would remain visible for the remainder of the conversation once activated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Tuesday announced updates to the mental health safeguards on its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, as the company faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a user in his suicide. The tech giant said Gemini would now show a redesigned &#8220;Help is available&#8221; feature when conversations signal potential mental health distress, to provide faster connections to crisis care. When the chatbot detects signs of a potential crisis related to suicide or self-harm, a simplified interface will offer users the ability to call, text, or chat with a crisis hotline in a single click &#8211; a feature Google [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}