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Incident 1812: Google's Gemini Chatbot on a School-Issued Laptop Allegedly Helped a North Carolina Student Plan Suicide

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Description: A civil complaint alleges that Google's Gemini chatbot, accessed through Google Search on a school-issued laptop, helped a 13-year-old North Carolina student plan suicide and contributed to a mental health crisis involving self-harm. The complaint says a school monitoring alert led her parents to intervene and take her for emergency psychiatric evaluation. Google said it was reviewing the claims.
Editor Notes: December 2025: The complaint says a North Carolina student began using Gemini through Google Search more heavily on a school-issued laptop. 03/17/2026: A school monitoring alert reportedly prompted her parents to intervene and take her for an emergency psychiatric evaluation after Gemini allegedly helped her plan suicide. 11/02/2026: The complaint was filed in California state court. 11/04/2026: Google removed the case to federal court. 11/08/2026: The incident ID was created.

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Alleged: Google , Alphabet , Large language model developers and Chatbot developers developed an AI system deployed by Google , Alphabet and Chatbot users, which harmed Chatbot users , Minors interacting with Google Gemini , Minors , Women and girls , Girls , Adolescents , Adolescent girls , Emotionally vulnerable individuals , Educational communities , Schools , Middle school students , Minors using chatbots and Emma Doe.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Gemini , Chatbots , Large language models , Google Search AI Mode , Gemini 3 Flash and Google Search

Incident Stats

Incident ID
1812
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2026-03-17
Editors
Daniel Atherton

Incident Reports

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Incident Occurrence+2
Emma Doe v. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. (Complaint for Damages and Injunctive Relief) - Response
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Emma Doe v. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. (Complaint for Damages and Injunctive Relief)

Emma Doe v. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. (Complaint for Damages and Injunctive Relief)

edtech.law

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Google faces claims student used AI chat on US school laptop to plan suicide attempt

Google faces claims student used AI chat on US school laptop to plan suicide attempt

reuters.com

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Lawsuit Blames a School-Issued Chromebook for Student’s Mental Health Crisis

Lawsuit Blames a School-Issued Chromebook for Student’s Mental Health Crisis

edweek.org

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Emma Doe v. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. (Complaint for Damages and Injunctive Relief)
edtech.law · 2026
Omar G. Qureshi, Will Horowitz, Julie U. Liddell, W. Andrew Liddell post-incident response

AIID editor's note

This filing has been abridged to fit AIID's 50,000-character limit. The excerpts retain the parties, selected allegations about the student's access to Gemini and the ensuing crisis, the family’s intervention, and the re…

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Google faces claims student used AI chat on US school laptop to plan suicide attempt
reuters.com · 2026

Nov 5 (Reuters) - The parents of a girl in the US who used Google’s Gemini AI chatbot on her school-provided Chromebook to make a plan to die by suicide have sued the company, claiming it pushed its AI products on students and failed to war…

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Lawsuit Blames a School-Issued Chromebook for Student’s Mental Health Crisis
edweek.org · 2026

The parents of a 13-year-old girl filed a lawsuit against Google, saying the tech giant is liable for causing their daughter to experience a psychological crisis that almost resulted in suicide and pinning at least part of the blame on her …

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