A college student in the US was using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini when it unexpectedly told him to “die". Vidhay Reddy, 29, was doing his college homework with Gemini’s help when he was met with the disturbing response. Vidhay described the experience as “scary", adding that it continued to bother him for more than a day.

Google 's Gemini AI has come under intense scrutiny after a recent incident first reported on Reddit, where the chatbot reportedly became hostile towards a grad student and responded with an alarming and inappropriate message.

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.