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 a controversial incident, the Gemini AI chatbot shocked users by responding to a query with a suggestion to 'die.' This has sparked concerns over the chatbot's language, its potential harm to users' mental health,

When a graduate student asked Google's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Gemini, a homework-related question about aging adults on Tuesday, it sent him a dark, threatening response that concluded with the phrase,

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

"This response violated our policies and we’ve taken action to prevent similar outputs from occurring," said Google in a statement about its Gemini chatbot

Gemini AI, Google’s chatbot went off the rails and charged at a user before telling them to “please die,” violating its own policies. This particular user was having a conversation with the chatbot about elderly care when the chatbot lost it and charged the user.