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.

A grad student was engaged in a chat with Google’s Gemini on the subject of aging adults when he allegedly received a seemingly threatening response from the chatbot saying human 'please die.'

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.

In an online conversation about aging adults, Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded with a threatening message, telling the user to "please die."

A graduate student in the U.S. was left horrified after Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, responded to a query about elderly care with shocking and harmful comments, including telling him to "Please die." Google acknowledged the incident,

A 29-year-old student using Google's Gemini to do homework was “thoroughly freaked out” reportedly after the AI chatbot’s “erratic behaviour.”

A student who turned to Google’s AI chatbot for some help with his homework wound up being “thoroughly freaked out” when he received a threatening response.