The New York Times reports:
After chatting for months with Google's artificial intelligence on a school-issued Chromebook laptop, a 13-year-old student made plans to end her life, according to a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court on Monday, the latest in a wave of litigation over Big Tech's effects on young people. The lawsuit, which refers to the girl as Emma, said that her parents first learned she had access to Google's AI in mid-March after their daughter's school sent a message warning them that she was in "imminent danger" of self-harm. Emma's mother logged into the teen's school Google account and found her daughter composing a suicide note on Google Docs, the complaint said. Her parents, named as John and Jane Doe in the lawsuit, immediately took Emma for an emergency psychiatric evaluation, and she now goes to therapy every week.
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Parents are suing technology giant Google, alleging the AI Gemini chatbot offered on school Chromebooks helped a young teen plan her near-suicide and funeral.
Parents are suing technology giant Google, alleging the AI Gemini chatbot offered on school Chromebooks helped a young teen plan her near-suicide and funeral.
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