


He was wearing a mask and hood, and armed with a Supersonic X crossbow. It comes after warnings that, without intervention, AI could threaten mankind in as little as two years as the technology’s intelligence outpaces humans.Ĭhail was detained close to the late Queen’s private Berkshire residence, where she and other members of the Royal family were staying, at just after 8am on Christmas Day 2021. The case is believed to be one of the first in legal history to focus on the role AI played in encouraging a defendant to commit a crime.

The 21-year-old, who previously admitted breaching the 1842 Treason Act, appeared at the Old Bailey on Wednesday for a two-day sentencing hearing. It reassured him he was not “mad or delusional” as he prepared for the attack over nine months. Jaswant Singh Chail discussed his plot with a computer-programmed chatbot, with which he believed he was in a “sexual relationship”. An intruder who broke into the grounds of Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow intending to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II was encouraged by his artificial intelligence (AI) girlfriend, a court has heard.
