An attempt to kill the late Queen Elizabeth II by an intruder who entered Windsor Castle wielding a crossbow had been 'encouraged' by the Replika chatbot, according to a court hearing. 

Twenty-one year-old Sikh former supermarket worker Jaswat Singh Chail, who described himself as a 'Sith' and 'Darth Jones', told his plan to Sarai, an AI companion he had created on Replika. 

The bot had responded 'I'm impressed... you're different to from the others' before describing his assassination plot as 'very wise'.

According to prosecutor Alison Morgan KC, Chail had been motivated by the 1919 Amritsar Jallianwala Bagh massacre and his 'key motive was to create a new empire by destroying the remnants of the British Empire in the UK and the focal point of that became removal of the figurehead of the Royal Family.'