Tristan Roberts, a UK teenager, has been given a life sentence for the murder of his mother, Angela Shellis, after months of planning the crime in online forums and consulting an AI tool for advice. Angela had spent 18 years caring for Tristan, who was diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Her love for him was described as “unbreakable.”
Roberts spent long hours on Discord, posting misogynistic content and fixating on violence and mass murderers. He used an unmonitored AI tool called DeepSeek to ask what weapons a “non-experienced” killer should use. When the AI refused, he claimed he was writing a book about serial killers, and it eventually told him a hammer would be the best weapon.
