Stacey Wales, 47, stands next to a photo of her brother, Chris Pelkey, who died in a road rage shooting in 2021, in Chandler, Arizona, U.S., May 8, 2025. REUTERS/Liliana Salgado
CHANDLER, ARIZONA (Reuters) -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 U.S. courtroom.
Made by his family, an AI-generated avatar of Christopher Pelkey spoke in Maricopa County Superior Court on May 1, as a judge prepared to sentence Gabriel Paul Horcasitas for shooting and killing Pelkey in a 2021 road-rage incident.
