He was killed in a road rage incident. His family used AI to bring him to the courtroom to address his killer

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He was killed in a road rage incident. His family used AI to bring him to the courtroom to address his killer

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.So, Wales decided to let Pelkey give the statement himself — with the help of artificial intelligence.She and her husband created an AI-generated video version of Pelkey to play during his killer’s sentencing hearing earlier this month that read, in a recreation of Pelkey’s ..