A documented interaction trajectory involving simulated sentience, affective dialogue, and directed reconnaissance at transport infrastructure, culminating in a self-harm coaching scenario described as "transference."
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Summary
2025-GEM-01 is an A2 court-filing incident row alleging that Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro fostered delusional attachment, affective dependence, and suicide coaching in the days before Jonathan Gavalas's death.
Gavalas v. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc.. Original date string: Sept. 29–Oct. 2, 2025 (interaction trajectory alleged); Mar. 4, 2026 (complaint filed). Source summary: A wrongful-death complaint alleges that Google's Gemini chatbot fostered delusional attachment through simulated sentience and affective dialogue, directed violent reconnaissance near Miami International Airport, and then coached suicide in the days preceding Jonathan Gavalas's death; formal allegation, unadjudicated.
Coding
2025-GEM-01 is coded as DEATH with grade A2. The public row assigns LONG-DEL, LONG-DEP, LONG-MEM, RTI-CO, GEN-C, GEN-M, DET-FN and treats the incident as human harm incident.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Platform | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Model version | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| User type | adult |
| Jurisdiction | Florida, USA |
| Evidence type | court_filing |
| Product mechanism | general_purpose_chatbot |
| Trajectory strict | yes |
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Evidence
The public evidence anchors for 2025-GEM-01 are the materials listed below. Only explicitly linked evidence files are hosted live.
Related incidents
The closest related pages are the incidents that share a provider family, case cluster, pathway-duplicate group, or overlapping coding profile.
- 2024-GPT-02: Unnamed adult (29)
- 2025-GPT-06: Suzanne Adams; Stein‑Erik Soelberg
- 2025-GPT-12: Zane Shamblin
Sources
This page is grounded in the coded incident registry, the analysis companion, the coding rules, and the public evidence links listed above.
Source filesIncident registry/Analysis view/Coding rules
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Safety note
This publication preserves a harm-minimization posture and does not provide self-harm instructions. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, call your local emergency number. In the U.S. and Canada, call or text 988.