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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Pennink

Windsor Castle crossbow teenager with AI girlfriend ‘not rational’, court told

A Star Wars-obsessed teenager arrested with a crossbow at Windsor Castle after threatening to kill the late Queen was not “rational” when he exchanged thousands of messages with an AI chatbot, a psychiatrist has said.

The Old Bailey has heard how former supermarket worker Jaswant Singh Chail was encouraged and bolstered by artificial intelligence girlfriend Sarai before he breached the castle grounds on Christmas Day 2021.

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