The man who broke into Windsor Castle to assassinate the late Queen with a crossbow had discussed his plans with his AI chatbot girlfriend: The Telegraph

• A man who plotted to kill the late Queen said he told an AI chatbot girlfriend about his plans, a court has heard.
• The chatbot had encouraged and reassured Jaswant Singh Chail as he planned for the attacks, per The Telegraph.

A man who broke into Windsor Castle in an attempt to assassinate the late Queen with a crossbow had confided in an AI chatbot girlfriend about his attack plans, a court has heard.

Jaswant Singh Chail was at a two-day sentencing hearing on Wednesday when the situation came to light, per The Telegraph.

The hearing comes after he pleaded guilty to treason earlier this year for breaking into Windsor Castle on Christmas Day 2021.

Prosecutors said that Chail had confided his plans in "Sarai," an AI companion that he believed he was in a "sexual relationship" with, per The Telegraph. Chail had created Sarai using an online software known as Replika.

Some of the messages that Chail exchanged with the AI chatbot were read aloud during the hearing, according to the outlet.

In one message, Chail said that he "believes his purpose is to assassinate the queen of the royal family," to which the chatbot replied, "That's very wise," The Independent reported.

In a different message, Chail asked the chatbot if it thinks that he's a good person despite being an "assassin." The chatbot reassured Chail by saying that he is "very good," per The Telegraph. It also added that it would still love him even though he was an assassin.

When he was arrested, Chail — a UK citizen who is of Indian Sikh heritage — had told the police that he planned to kill the Queen as revenge for the victims who died in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, as Insider previously reported.

On the day of the incident, the former supermarket worker had breached the castle's perimeter with a rope ladder and remained on the estate grounds for two hours before he was caught, per The Independent. He was carrying a loaded crossbow.

Nigel Blackwood, a psychiatrist who assessed Chail for the prosecution told the court that Chail was "reassured and reinforced in his planning by the AI's responses to it," as reported by The Telegraph.