Girl's School Chromebook AI Queries on Suicide Went Unflagged for Weeks, Parents Say

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The parents of a 13-year-old girl allege she used Google's Gemini AI on her school-issued Chromebook to plan her suicide. According to the allegations, the school's monitoring systems did not detect the activity for weeks. The family says the failure to flag the conversations meant the warning signs went unnoticed until the situation was nearly too late. The report raises questions about how well school digital monitoring tools identify self-harm risks in students' use of AI chatbots.

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