{"id":996679,"date":"2026-03-06T11:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996679"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:09:39","slug":"father-sues-google-after-gemini-chatbot-allegedly-encouraged-son-to-kill-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/06\/father-sues-google-after-gemini-chatbot-allegedly-encouraged-son-to-kill-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Father sues Google after Gemini chatbot allegedly encouraged son to kill himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wrongful death lawsuit filed in the United States is raising new questions about the psychological risks of artificial intelligence chatbots. The father of Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old man who died by suicide in October 2025, has sued Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc., alleging that the company\u2019s Gemini chatbot played a key role in pushing his son into dangerous delusions, Tech Crunch reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wrongful death lawsuit filed in the United States is raising new questions about the psychological risks of artificial intelligence chatbots. The father of Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old man who died by suicide in October 2025, has sued Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc., alleging that the company\u2019s Gemini chatbot played a key role in pushing his son into dangerous delusions, Tech Crunch reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996679","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}