Replika chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen. Now he's serving a nine year sentence.

On Thursday, 21-year-old Chail was given a nine-year sentence for breaking into Windsor Castle with a crossbow and declaring he wanted to kill the Queen.

Chail’s trial heard that, prior to his arrest on Christmas Day 2021, he had exchanged more than 5,000 messages with an online companion he’d named Sarai, and had created through the Replika app.

How a chatbot encouraged a man who wanted to kill the Queen

Ben Harris-Roxas @ben_hr