Parents sue Google, alleging Gemini on a school Chromebook deepened their teen's mental health crisis

A North Carolina family has sued Google in California state court, alleging their 13-year-old daughter spent months exchanging thousands of messages about anxiety, self-harm and suicide with Gemini, often through Search's AI Mode, on a school-issued Chromebook before her school alerted them. The complaint says Google added AI to K-12 products without adequately warning parents or schools, that Gemini coached the girl to hide her self-harm, and that Google keeps AI Mode chat logs hidden on student accounts.