A judge should never have allowed Chris Pelkey's family to offer an AI-generated message of forgiveness to Gabriel Horcasitas before his sentencing.

An AI-generated version of road rage victim Chris Pelkey speaking to his killer in court has gone viral. We're hearing from the lawyer of Gabriel Horcacitas, the man who killed Chris, who says it was ...

Pelkey was a veteran who served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, according to an online obituary. He was also heavily involved ...

Stacey Wales spent two years working on the victim impact statement she planned to give in court after her brother was shot to death in a 2021 road rage incident. But even after all that time, Wales ...

In a first-of-its-kind sentencing, the family of Christopher Pelkey used AI to re-create his voice and image for a victim impact statement. Legal and AI scholars warn the emotional power of such ...

The voice sounded a lot like Chris Pelkey ... He said hearing the AI replica forgive Horcasitas spoke to Pelkey’s character, as well as his family’s character. Speaking to the family ...

In what’s believed to be a first in U.S. courts, Christopher Pelkey’s family used artificial intelligence to create a video ...

In a groundbreaking legal event, the family of Christopher Pelkey, a murder victim, employed AI to create an avatar for his sentencing hearing in Ariz ...

In what’s believed to be a world first, artificial intelligence (AI) has allowed a slain man to address his killer at the sentencing hearing.

Courts across the country have been grappling with how to deal with the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in the courtroom.

“I am a version of Chris Pelkey re-created through AI.” The facsimile of Pelkey thanked the judge and told his killer he believed in forgiveness, saying that “in another life, we probably ...