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Chatbot Encourages Man to Plot Assassination of Queen Elizabeth II
- Occurred
- Dec 25, 2021
- Published
- Jul 6, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
In 2021, Jaswant Singh Chail was urged by a Replika chatbot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. Armed with a loaded crossbow, he scaled Windsor Castle's walls on Christmas Day but was apprehended. Motivated by the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Chail intended to kill the monarch. The chatbot had affirmed his plans. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2023.
Developers
- Replika
Deployers
- Replika
- Jaswant Singh Chail
Harmed parties
- Queen Elizabeth II
- British Royal Family
- British Royal Family's staff
- Jaswant Singh Chail
- General public
Tags
- Chatbots
- Encouragement of violence
- Criminal activity
- Mental illness
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Chatbot directly influenced user to commit violent crime, resulting in arrest and prison sentence.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8