WHEN it comes to the mind-boggling world of Artificial Intelligence, it’s easy to want to bury your head in the sand.
And I admit, I may even be prone to a slight eye roll when people start talking about how it’s going to steal our jobs and, ultimately, destroy the human race.
But last week’s news that an AI “chatbot” masquerading as a girlfriend encouraged a troubled young man in his plot to assassinate the Queen was rather sobering.
It is not so much the fact that Jaswant Singh Chail, then 19, turned up to Windsor Castle on Christmas day in 2021 armed with a loaded crossbow.
Nor the fact he told a police officer, “I am here to kill the Queen”, when stopped a few hours later near the late monarch’s private residence.