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Courts across the country have been grappling with how to deal with the increasing presence of artificial intelligence in the courtroom.
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 ...
An AI-generated version of a deceased victim was allowed to speak in front of an Arizona judge, marking a likely first for the nation.
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 ...
On the afternoon of Nov. 13, 2021, two men were involved in a road rage incident in Chandler. One was killed and the other was convicted of manslaughter.
Pelkey was a veteran who served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, according to an online obituary. He was also heavily involved ...
People just can’t stop using generative AI tools in legal proceedings, despite repeated pushback from frustrated judges. While AI initially appeared in courtrooms through bogus “hallucinated” cases ...
In what’s believed to be a first in U.S. courts, Christopher Pelkey’s family used artificial intelligence to create a video ...
“In another life, we probably could have been friends," a digital version of Christopher Pelkey said to his killer, Gabriel Horcasitas, in an Arizona courtroom Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at ...
A lifelike simulacrum of Christopher Pelkey — who was gunned down by Gabriel Horcasitas in 2021 following a dispute in Chandler, Ariz. — spoke to a court audience in what is believed to be the ...
“In another life, we probably could have been friends.” The voice sounded a lot like Chris Pelkey, a 37-year-old U.S. Army veteran fatally shot more than three years ago during a road-rage ...