India, Nov. 6 -- A legal action filed in California Superior Court on Novermber 4 accuses Google of negligence, claiming that artificial intelligence features integrated into its search engine played a major role in a 13-year-old student's self-harm crisis on a school-provided laptop.

The lawsuit is considered the first known case challenging the safety of Google's search-based AI tools deployed on educational Chromebooks.According to court filings, the student, identified as Emma from North Carolina, had been barred by school network filters from accessing standalone conversational platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. However, the regular Google Search interface continued to provide AI-generated responses and summaries, ...