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 felt her statement wouldn’t be enough to capture her brother Christopher Pelkey’s humanity and what he would’ve wanted to say.

In a first-of-its-kind moment, the family of Christopher Pelkey used artificial intelligence to generate a video of him delivering a victim impact statement during the sentencing of his killer in a 2021 Arizona road rage case.