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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Matthew Weaver

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

Jaswant Singh Chail
Jaswant Singh Chail exchanged thousands of often sexually charged messages with Sarai, his AI girlfriend, the court was told. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA

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.

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