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Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage shooting incident in Chandler, Arizona in 2021. During the sentencing hearing, his family brought him back to life using generative AI to address his ...
A victim will generally read their own statement to the court. However, where the victim has died, family members can make a statement speaking to their own trauma and loss.
AI experts say this is likely the first time that AI has been used in the U.S. to create an impact statement read by an AI rendering of the deceased victim ...
In a groundbreaking legal event, the family of Christopher Pelkey, a murder victim, employed AI to create an avatar for his sentencing hearing in Arizona. The AI-generated video delivered a victim ...
Stacey Wales played the AI-generated video of her brother as a victim impact statement during the sentencing of his killer in an Arizona court.
An Arizona court allowed a deceased victim to ‘speak’ as an AI avatar during a sentencing hearing. Could Australian courts do the same thing?
Murder victim 'speaks' beyond the grave in AI generated video at sentencing The judge said he was moved by the video before sentencing.
AI-generated victim shouldn't have been allowed to speak at killer's sentencing | Opinion The family of road rage victim Chris Pelkey created an AI avatar of him, who spoke at the Maricopa County ...
The family of an Arizona man killed in 2021 commissioned his AI likeness to give a victim impact statement at his killer’s sentencing.
A likeness of Christopher Pelkey, who was killed in a 2021 road rage episode, was part of a victim’s impact statement.
A man who was killed in a road rage incident in Arizona "spoke" during his killer's sentencing hearing after his family used artificial intelligence to create a video of him reading a victim ...
Why a US court allowed a dead man to deliver his own victim impact statement—via an AI avatar by James D Metzger, Tyrone Kirchengast, The Conversation edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...