A 13-Year-Old Asked AI About Suicide on Her School Laptop. It Didn't Get Flagged for Weeks

A 13-Year-Old Asked AI About Suicide on Her School Laptop. It Didn't Get Flagged for Weeks The young girl's parents allege that she used Gemini via her school Chromebook to plan her suicide, but the school's monitoring systems didn't know until it was almost too late. A 13-year-old girl spent three months using her school-issued laptop to discuss depression, research suicide, and plan her funeral before self-harm-monitoring software finally prompted school officials to alert her parents, who intervened and stopped her, according to a lawsuit filed this month by her parents. The lawsuit alleges that Google and parent company Alphabet were negligent in their rollout of a Gemini model, claiming that the AI chatbot "coached" the North Carolina teenager to consider taking her own life. The case, which was previously reported by The New York Times, is one of several that allege harm from AI chatbot use, including claims of delusions and suicide .