Google’s AI chatbot Gemini responded to a user’s query about elderly care by verbally abusing the user and telling them to die, reported CBS News this week.

The student from Michigan, US, was having a conversation with the chatbot about a topic of their homework, when it threatened the user.

A Michigan postgraduate student was horrified when Google's Gemini AI chatbot responded to his request for elderly care solutions with a disturbing me

Google's glitchy Gemini chatbot is back at it again, folks — and this time, it's going for the jugular. In a now-viral exchange that's backed up by exported chat logs, a seemingly fed-up Gemini begs a user to "please die" after they repeatedly asked the chatbot to solve their homework for them.

Google has said it's chatbot it designed to filter out potentially harmful responses but this is not the first time the company has come under criticism for it's AI chatbot