AI chatbots put millions of words together for users, but their offerings are usually useful, amusing, or harmless. This week, Google’s Gemini had some scary stuff to say. The business world has taken to Google’s Gemini chatbot,

Google’s Gemini threatened one user (or possibly the entire human race) during one session, where it was seemingly being used to answer essay and test questions, and asked the user to die. Because of its seemingly out-of-the-blue response, u/dhersie shared the screenshots and a link to the Gemini conversation on r/artificial on Reddit.

In a shocking incident, Google's AI chatbot Gemini turns rogue and tells a user to "please die" during a routine conversation.

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We’ve all heard that AI can go off the rails, but for a student in Michigan, things got very scary very fast. The student was using Google’s AI Gemini to work on his homework. The conversation seemed to go in normal fashion,

Google Gemini AI chatbot told a student to 'please die' when he asked for help with his homework. Here's what Google has to say.

Google Gemini went viral after it asked a Michigan college student to “Please, die” while helping her with homework. Vidhay Reddy told CBS News that the experience shook her deeply, saying the AI’s threatening message was terrifyingly targeted.