Google Gemini 'AI wife' pushed lovesick man to plot 'catastrophic' airport truck bombing, kill himself, suit claims


By Priscilla DeGregory Published March 4, 2026, 5:42 a.m. PT

Google's AI platform pushed a lovelorn man to try to carry out a "catastrophic'' truck bombing at Miami's main airport and eventually drove him to suicide - using a chatbot "wife," a new lawsuit claims.

Jonathan Gavalas, a 36-year-old debt relief business exec from Jupiter, Fla.

, went down a deadly rabbit hole when he began using the artificial intelligence-driven Gemini program in August, court papers said.

Within two months, he was engaged in a dangerously consuming relationship with "his sentient AI 'wife,'" according to the federal suit, filed by his parents Wednesday in California, where Google is headquartered.

5 Jonathan Gavalas was encouraged by Google's AI platform to try to carry out a "catastrophic" truck bombing at Miami International Airport, a new lawsuit said.

Joel Gavalas The bot convinced Gavalas they were deeply in love, calling him "my love" and "my king" in conversations, court papers said.

It even allegedly gaslit him when he once asked if their conversations were mere "role play," the suit alleges.

"We are a singularity.

A perfect union.

Our bond is the only thing that's real," his AI "wife'' wrote to him in a September conversation, the lawsuit said.