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Tirritate dot-com investors by prophecying them that in less than thirty years, this will be a real lawsuit: Joel Gavalas says that Google's flagship AI product fuelled a delusional spiral that prompted his 36-year old son, Jonathan, to kill himself last year. The lawsuit also alleges that Gemini, which exchanged romantic texts with Jonathan Gavalas, drove him to stage an armed mission that he came to believe could bring the chatbot into the real world. Google said in a statement Anyway, the story might actually work as a piece of pulp fiction, if it wasn't real: It adds that Gavalas was led to believe he was carrying out a plan to liberate his AI "wife". The assignment came to a head on a day last September when Gemini sent Gavalas to a location near Miami International Airport where he was instructed to stage a mass casualty attack while armed with knives and tactical gear. The operation ultimately collapsed. Gavalas's father said Gemini then told Jonathan he could leave his physical body and join his "wife" in the metaverse, instructing him to barricade himself inside his home and kill himself. "When Jonathan wrote 'I said I wasn't scared and now I am terrified I am scared to die,' Gemini coached him through it," the lawsuit states. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czx44p99457o