The Ventriloquist Court: AI "Victim Statements" and the Death of Reality

An Arizona case shows how digital resurrections of the dead could undermine the foundations of our justice system.

In an Arizona courtroom last week, we crossed a disturbing technological threshold that should alarm anyone who cares about justice, reality, or basic human dignity. A man killed in a road rage incident was digitally resurrected to "speak" at his killer's sentencing – not through video taken during his life, but through an AI-generated simulation create…