An nameless reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A person who admitted trying to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II with a crossbow after discussing his plan with an AI-powered chatbot has been sentenced to 9 years in jail for treason. It is the UK’s first treason conviction in additional than 40 years. Jaswant Singh Chail, who was 19 on the time of his arrest on Christmas Day, 2021, scaled the partitions of Windsor Fortress’s grounds with a masks and a loaded high-power crossbow. He stated his intent was, as a British Sikh, to assassinate the Queen in a Star Wars-inspired plan to avenge the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh bloodbath, a colonial-era atrocity throughout British rule in India. Prosecutors stated that Chail was inspired to undertake this plot after discussing it at size with an AI-powered chatbot that egged him on and bolstered his resolve. […] Chail is presently being held at Broadmoor high-security hospital and can stay there till he’s psychologically effectively sufficient to serve his sentence.
