Dead man's AI replica speaks to shooter in court: 'We probably could have been friends'

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Dead man's AI replica speaks to shooter in court: 'We probably could have been friends'

“It is a shame we encountered each other that day,” a voice from the grave echoed throughout a Phoenix courtroom. “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 attack in Chandler, Arizona. But it wasn't actually Pelkey.What onlookers heard on May 1 in a Maricopa County courtroom was a replica made using artificial intelligence, and both images and voice recordings of Pelkey, his older sister, Stacey Wales, told USA TODAY.The AI replica's voice rang out during a ..