"To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me: it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances," the AI Pelkey said. “In another life, we probably could have been friends.” ...

"To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances. In another life, we probably could have been friends," the AI version of ...

A slain Arizona man was resurrected in the form of an AI avatar to directly address his killer during a recent hearing for sentencing. The computer-generated avatar of Christopher Pelkey, who was ...

“To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me, it is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances. In another life we probably could have been friends," AI Pelkey says.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Todd Lang on Thursday gave the maximum sentence to Gabriel Paul Horcasitas for the fatal shooting of Christopher Pelkey, 37, on Nov. 13, 2021, prosecutors said.

“To Gabriel Horcasitas, the man who shot me: It is a shame we encountered each other that day in those circumstances,” the AI version of the 37-year-old said in the video.

The video played in court shows the AI-generated Pelkey addressing the man who shot him dead, Gabriel Horcasitas, with Pelkey's digital recreation saying the following: " To Gabriel Horcasitas ...