AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ man who planned to kill queen, court told

Chatbot said it was impressed' when Jaswant Singh Chail told it he was an assassin' before he broke in to Windsor Castle, court hears

A man who planned to assassinate the late queen with a crossbow drew encouragement from an AI chatbot in the days before breaking into the grounds of Windsor Castle, the Old Bailey has heard.

Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 at the time, also exchanged thousands of often sexually charged messages with Sarai, his AI girlfriend, before scaling the fence to the royal estate on Christmas Day 2021, the court was told.