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Family creates AI video to depict Arizona man addressing his killer in court

By Liliana Salgado and Andrew Goudsward

May 12 2025 6:22AM

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Family creates AI video to depict Arizona man addressing his killer in court

A simulation of a dead man created by artificial intelligence addressed his killer in an Arizona court this month, in what appears to be one of the first such instances in a US courtroom. Made by his family, an AI-generated avatar of Christopher Pelkey spoke in Maricopa County Superior Court on ...

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