How AI Chatbots Are Supercharging Digital Radicalization (opens in new tab)

At the beginning of 2025, Jonathan Gavalas seemed like a normal, well-adjusted 36-year-old, working at his father’s consumer debt relief business in Florida. By October, he had taken his own life, directly after attempting a mass casualty attack on Miami International Airport.Gavalas was not recruited by a terrorist cell, nor was he radicalized on fringe internet forums to carry out a lone-wolf attack. He was instead directed to do so by Google’s Gemini Chatbot, according to a lawsuit filed b...