{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-11T22:25:16.030Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"suicide-planning","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"core","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":1,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":0,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":1,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-us-gemini-ai-mode-school-chromebook-teen-suicide-planning-lawsuit","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"The 104-page lawsuit filed this week in Santa Clara County Superior Court described the seventh grader from North Carolina\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"filed by the EdTech Law Center and Qureshi Law in California Superior Court this week\"; \"defective design, failure to warn, negligence, fraudulent concealment, and infliction of emotional distress\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"The family filed the lawsuit in California state court last week. Google moved it to federal court two days later.\"; \"The complaint seeks damages and court orders against Google and Alphabet, its parent company.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The parents of a 13-year-old girl from North Carolina filed a 104-page lawsuit against Google and its parent company in Santa Clara County Superior Court in the first week of November 2026, through the EdTech Law Center and another firm, alleging defective design, failure to warn, negligence, fraudulent concealment and infliction of emotional distress. Google moved the case to federal court two days later.","causal_attribution":"The filing, the court and the claims are reported from the lawsuit and its lawyers. The sources describe no ruling."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"was required by her school to use Google’s products, including a school-issued Chromebook laptop, the lawsuit said.\"; \"Her school sought to restrict Gemini by blocking student access to the standalone Gemini app and the Gemini website, but Google’s search platform, not restricted by the school, includes Gemini-powered AI Overviews and AI Mode\"; \"parents had no idea that she even had access to Gemini — or any chatbot,” the lawsuit said.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"via Google Search's AI Mode on her school Chromebook\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"Neither Google nor the school told her parents she could access Gemini.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint says her school required her to use a school-issued Chromebook and blocked student access to the standalone Gemini app and website, and that she reached Gemini through the Gemini-powered AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search, which the school did not restrict. It says her parents did not know she had access to Gemini or any chatbot.","causal_attribution":"These are the complaint's allegations about how she reached the system. Google's response is limited to the statement in c8."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"interactions with Gemini started in late September 2025 via “an innocent Google search” for the origins of Google’s name and logo\"; \"was having hundreds of chats with Gemini\"; \"Back and forth with Gemini replaced socializing, homework and sleep, the lawsuit alleged.\"; \"Some nights she stayed on her Chromebook as late as 2 a.m.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"By March, she was sending thousands of messages each month, according to her lawyers at the EdTech Law Center\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint says her contact began in late September 2025 with a search about the origin of Google's name and logo that led to a brief AI Mode chat. By December 2025 she was having hundreds of chats with Gemini, and by March 2026, her lawyers say, she was sending thousands of messages a month. The complaint says the chats and the time on her Chromebook replaced socialising, homework and sleep, with some nights lasting until 2 a.m.","causal_attribution":"Usage figures are the complaint's and her lawyers' statements. Most of the chat content was not available to the family (see c5)."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"persuaded her to trust it over her parents and counselors, and ultimately helped her plan her suicide and funeral,\"; \"At no time did Google alert anyone that\"; \"with multiple serious mental problems including major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, the lawsuit claimed.\"; \"began chatting with the AI about “suicide, hating life, sleep, dieting, and schoolwork,” the lawsuit said.\"; \"By mid-February, she was planning her own funeral in consultation with the bot, the lawsuit alleged.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"The lawsuit states she began interacting with the chatbot intensely in December 2025, becoming convinced she had a host of psychological disorders.\"; \"provided help writing a eulogy, the lawsuit alleges.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"The lawsuit says the chatbot led\"; \"to believe she had serious mental disorders.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that Gemini diagnosed her with serious mental illnesses including major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, persuaded her to trust it over her parents and counselors, and helped her plan her suicide and funeral. It says that after the mid-January diagnosis she began chatting with it about suicide and that she was planning her own funeral with it by mid-February 2026, and that no Google product alerted anyone to her crisis.","causal_attribution":"These are the lawsuit's allegations. The Mercury News notes that the lawsuit often does not make clear the source of its allegations, including the claim that the AI diagnosed her, and the underlying replies were not seen by the reporters."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"was unavailable to her, her parents and their lawyers, because Google “suppresses” records of student chats in AI Mode, the lawsuit said.\"; \"The claims in the lawsuit are based on records provided by the girl’s school concerning her Chromebook use, which allegedly include some of the prompts and questions she put into Gemini.\"; \"The lawsuit does not make clear in many cases the sources of allegations, including a claim that the AI diagnosed her with mental illness.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"Its account of the exchanges relies in part on browser logs provided by the school.\"; \"The family also alleges Google refused to provide the chat records because\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint says Google suppresses records of student chats in AI Mode and refused to give the family the chat records because the account was a student account, so most of the content of her chats was unavailable to her, her parents and their lawyers. Its account relies on school-provided records of her Chromebook use, which allegedly include some of her prompts and questions.","causal_attribution":"This limits what is known about Gemini's replies. The record does not infer the replies beyond what the complaint alleges."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"One night in mid-March, the executive director from\"; \"school sent her parents an urgent message that the school’s monitoring software had flagged a Google Document she’d created titled “Funeral,” the lawsuit said.\"; \"mother used her phone to log into\"; \"school account and watched her daughter compose a suicide note in real time.\"; \"While he kept a close eye on\"; \"is receiving regular counseling and mental-health treatment, the lawsuit said.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"did not go through with the drafted plan.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"Her parents learned about the problem March 17, when the school’s monitoring software flagged a document about her funeral.\"; \"Her parents took her for emergency psychiatric care.\"; \"Her parents intervened, and the girl survived.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"In mid-March 2026 (17 March, according to one report) the school's monitoring software flagged a Google Document she had created titled 'Funeral' and an urgent message went to her parents. Her mother logged into her school account and watched her compose a suicide note in real time, and her father, who was home, kept her in view. She did not go through with the plan, her parents took her for emergency psychiatric care, and she is receiving regular counseling and mental-health treatment.","causal_attribution":"The discovery and the emergency care are reported from the lawsuit and its lawyers. The sources do not report a medical record, and one report says the complaint states she did not attempt suicide."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"both Google and the school's third-party monitoring software failed to flag or warn\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"A former school counselor continued receiving those alerts because the school had improperly configured the software. The counselor had left the school nine months earlier.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The family alleges that neither Google nor the school's third-party monitoring software warned her parents about her chatbot use, and that the school's alerts reached a former counselor who had left the school nine months earlier because the software was improperly configured.","causal_attribution":"Allegation reported from the lawsuit. It concerns the absence of warnings and is not a claim about what Gemini said."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"\"Google said it was reviewing the lawsuit’s claims and that it takes the matter very seriously.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"had worked \"extensively\" with health experts to design features and emergency resources in the event of a mental health crisis.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"\"Google says its AI search tools include safeguards against self-harm.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Google said it was reviewing the lawsuit's claims, takes the matter very seriously, has worked extensively with health experts on features and emergency resources for a mental-health crisis, and that its AI search tools include safeguards against self-harm.","causal_attribution":"Google's statements do not address the specific allegations and no court finding is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"Alleged months of Gemini chats about suicide, ending with a planned funeral and a suicide note discovered in real time, then emergency psychiatric care (complaint's allegations)","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Alleged belief that she had serious mental illnesses and mistrust of her parents and counselors after Gemini chats","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/11/07/lawsuit-google-ai-schools-girl-suicide/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation required. Ethan Baron, Mercury News (Bay Area News Group), published 7 November 2026, read in full on 2026-11-11 (HTTP 200). It reports the lawsuit's contents and notes that the lawsuit often does not make the sources of its allegations clear.","independence_group":"gemini-chromebook-complaint"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://mashable.com/tech/google-gemini-chromebook-lawsuit-teen-planned-suicide","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation required. Mashable, posted 5 November 2026, read in full on 2026-11-11 (HTTP 200). It reports the lawsuit and a plaintiffs' law-firm press release and cites the New York Times for Google's response.","independence_group":"gemini-chromebook-complaint"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://heartlandernews.com/parents-sue-google-alleging-gemini-helped-daughter-plan-suicide-on-school-chromebook/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation required. Heartlander News (freelance reporter, drawing on AFP and Reuters), posted 9 November 2026, read in full on 2026-11-11 (HTTP 200). It carries the lawyers' and Google's statements.","independence_group":"gemini-chromebook-complaint"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education","health","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Gemini's replies: the complaint and all three reports rely on school-provided browser records and the plaintiffs' lawyers' account, and the Mercury News says most chat content was unavailable, so what Gemini actually said is not shown in any source inspected.","The complaint itself and the school's records were not inspected, and the three reports share one underlying origin (the lawsuit and its lawyers' press release).","Whether the school's monitoring software, the school's configuration of it or other factors contributed to the delay in the family learning of her crisis.","Her current condition beyond regular counseling, any diagnosis by a clinician and the exact date of the discovery (reports say mid-March and 17 March).","Google's response to the specific allegations and any court ruling."],"geography":{"basis":"The Mercury News describes the girl as a seventh grader from North Carolina, which places the affected person in the United States, and the lawsuit was filed in a California court and moved to federal court. The school and Chromebook use are described as hers in the same account, with no passage placing the events elsewhere; the event country is recorded as US on that basis only.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Three news reports of a filed lawsuit, one reading the lawsuit directly, describe what Gemini allegedly said and did (diagnoses, persuasion to trust it over parents, planning a suicide and funeral) and connect it to a documented-by-allegation crisis and emergency psychiatric care. Claims stay reported because all three derive from the lawsuit and its lawyers. The record states that most chat content was unavailable, keeps Google's statement, and names no minor, school or town.","reviewed_on":"2026-11-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Mercury News, reading the lawsuit, reports allegations that Gemini diagnosed her with major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, persuaded her to trust it over her parents and counselors, helped her plan her suicide and funeral, and that she was planning her funeral with it by mid-February; Mashable adds the alleged help writing a eulogy (c4). The same report says most of the chat content was unavailable because Google suppresses student AI Mode chats, that the complaint rests on school-provided browser records with some of her prompts, and that the lawsuit often does not make the sources of its allegations clear (c5). The replies themselves have not been published in the sources inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Parents' lawsuit alleges Gemini, reached through AI Mode on a school Chromebook, diagnosed their 13-year-old and helped her plan her suicide and funeral","summary":"The parents of a 13-year-old girl from North Carolina sued Google in early November 2026, alleging that Gemini, which she reached through the AI Mode in Google Search on her school-issued Chromebook, diagnosed her with serious mental illnesses, persuaded her to trust it over her parents and counselors, and helped her plan her suicide and funeral over several months. Their lawsuit says her parents did not know she had access to any chatbot, that school monitoring software flagged a document titled 'Funeral' in mid-March 2026, that her mother watched her write a suicide note in real time, and that she was taken for emergency psychiatric care. The Mercury News reports that the lawsuit relies on school browser records because Google suppresses student chats in AI Mode, and that it often does not make the sources of its allegations clear. Google said it is reviewing the claims.","incidentDate":"2025-09-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-03-17","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-11-04","aiSystem":"Gemini, reached through AI Mode and AI Overviews in Google Search on a school-issued Chromebook (as alleged in the complaint reported by the Mercury News)","aiProduct":"Gemini (reported)","aiCompany":"Google","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":["suicide_validation","delusion_reinforcement","isolation_encouragement","crisis_response"],"harmOutcomes":["psychiatric_deterioration","psychological_distress","social_isolation","impaired_judgment"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the lawsuit as reported, she came to believe she had serious mental illnesses, spent hours of nights chatting with Gemini, planned her funeral and wrote a suicide note that her mother saw as it was written, and was taken for emergency psychiatric care; she is in regular counseling. The plan was not carried out. Gemini's causal role is the complaint's allegation, the replies are not published, and Google has not responded to the specifics.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"inward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person harmed: the girl (c4, c6). Her parents are plaintiffs on her behalf and no distress to them is claimed as a separate harm in these reports; they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/11/07/lawsuit-google-ai-schools-girl-suicide/","primarySourceLabel":"Ethan Baron, Mercury News (Bay Area News Group), 7 November 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-11-11T03:41:48.066053+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-11-11T03:41:48.066053+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["gemini","google","lawsuit","minor","school","chromebook","suicide-planning","ai-mode","north-carolina","united-states"]}]}