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A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness

A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness

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Should AI give you a voice? Even when you've been murdered?

An AI avatar of a murder victim addressed his killer in court last
week, and it may have been the first admittance of an AI-generated
victim impact statement in a US court. Chris Pelkey, who was shot
in a road rage incident in 2021, was recreated in a video made by
his sister to offer forgiveness to his killer. This could mark the
start of a new relationship between AI and the law, but will it
change the relationship between us and the law? And what are the
broader impacts we might see on our culture?

Brittany sits down with NPR digital news reporter Juliana Kim and
Brandon Blankenship, assistant professor and director of the
pre-law program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to find
out.

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