Juliana Kim
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It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
Well, American courts are really structured around due process. And if the prosecution puts together a case, for example, using AI, and the defense wants to go back and duplicate what the prosecution did to test the results to ensure that due process was followed on the part of the prosecutor, there's really no way to test that. And so courts are highly suspect of it.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
I mean, you're right there at the boundary of law and ethics, but I think the evidence rules altogether, if you look at them comprehensively, they're really designed to make sure that anything that comes into court is truthful, is just, and, for example, relevant to the actual case, and that it's fair.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
So if we can utilize AI to make it more just, credible, truthful, and fair, that's a good thing. Like in the case where someone has a disability that does not allow themselves, they can't communicate for themselves, but they have more control over what the AI avatar is actually saying and their expression, but they couldn't do that same level of communication.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
I think that has huge potential in courts. And from the victim statement point of view, if we want to be fair to victims and people who might be eligible for parole, then maybe a video attendance at those hearings is more fair. Because it's difficult for the victim to return every so many years and retell the same story and be re-traumatized in the same way.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
And so if the AI tool can help a victim communicate themselves, express what happened truthfully, then I think there's great use there. Where it's used to distort those things, then it's not a good thing.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
just from a humanization point of view, who owns my digital persona?
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
I happened to be redoing my will when I was having this conversation with you guys, and I decided I'm going to add a statement in there that says this is who I want in control of my digital persona once I pass away.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
just from a humanization point of view, who owns my digital persona? I think that to me is the most interesting part. You know, if you think about it, you know, I could go out on the internet and I could generate a digital persona, Brittany, that in many ways are like you, but they're not you. And so who owns that? And it's highlighted in this particular case because the sister of Mm-hmm.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
I can see if I were going to be on the other side of this case representing somebody in a sentencing hearing, I would want to narrow that scope down of the storytelling. If we could just narrow the scope down to that one incident where the road rage incident happened, it tells a very different story. And is that fair?
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
Yeah. What concerns me, You know, if I go back and look at things that I wrote or said 10 years ago, I'm not the same person I was then. And if you were to build that avatar based on all those past interviews and writings, you know, how accurate would it really be? I happened to be redoing my will when I was having this conversation with you guys.
It's Been a Minute
A tale of murder, artificial intelligence, & forgiveness
And I decided I'm going to add a statement in there that says this is who I want in control of my digital persona once I pass away.
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NPR News: 03-30-2025 5PM EDT
Richard Chamberlain's acting career spanned six decades. He rose to fame playing a compassionate and handsome physician in the 1960s TV show Dr. Kildare. And after a stint as a theater actor in the UK, he starred as a Western prisoner in the 1980s miniseries Shogun and portrayed a Catholic priest torn by love in the miniseries The Thorn Birds. Both roles earned Emmy nominations.
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In the 2000s, Chamberlain publicly revealed that he was gay in his autobiography. And over the years, he spoke more freely about the challenges in Hollywood when he felt he needed to hide his sexuality. Chamberlain died in Hawaii a few days before his 91st birthday. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
President Biden awarded Pope Francis with the nation's highest civilian honor on Saturday, the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. NPR's Juliana Kim reports.
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NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
President Biden was scheduled to travel to the Vatican this weekend to meet with Pope Francis. but canceled in order to monitor the California wildfires. The White House said the two were able to speak over the phone on Saturday. The White House says Pope Francis received the award for his commitment to serving the poor, as well as advocating for world peace and the environment.
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Live from NPR News in New York City, I'm Dwahlisa Kautel. The special counsel who led investigations on President-elect Donald Trump has resigned from the Justice Department. The separation of Jack Smith from the DOJ took place on Friday and only surfaced today during a court filing.
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President Biden is the second Catholic president in U.S. history, while Pope Francis is the third pope to receive the medal. The two have had a good rapport for many years, well before Biden took office.
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Juliana Kim NPR News and this is NPR News from New York City North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia have been captured by Ukraine's special forces in Russia's western Kursk region, an area that Kyiv took last summer by surprise. President Volodymyr Zelensky says the two men are wounded and have been transported to Kyiv, where they are receiving medical assistance.
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NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
On social media, Zelensky shared photos of two men on cots. Both had bandages, one around his jaw, the other on his hands. Ukraine's security service, the SBU, said only one North Korean soldier had documents, a Russian military ID. For the first time in more than 100 years, the Department of Justice has published a report on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
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NPR News: 01-11-2025 7PM EST
It remains unclear if Smith's findings on Trump's alleged involvement in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election results will ever be made public in whole or in parts. Catastrophic wildfires continue to burn in the Los Angeles area for the fifth straight day. At least 11 people are dead. We get the latest from Elise Hu.
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One way people are getting information to stay safe from wildfires is in the form of a mobile app. From member station KQED in San Francisco, Alexander Gonzalez has more on that.
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The Supreme Court brief came early Saturday morning. It ordered the Trump administration to halt deportations for Venezuelans held in a detention center in northern Texas. The Trump administration accuses the group of men of being gang members.
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NPR News: 04-19-2025 3PM EDT
The Supreme Court stepped in after the American Civil Liberties Union alerted them that immigration authorities were moving to quickly prepare removals under the Alien Enemies Act, despite the Supreme Court placing restrictions on how it can use the law. Some hundred migrants have already been deported under the wartime statute, according to federal officials.
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That includes a group of men who were taken to prison in El Salvador. Juliana Kim, NPR News.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Yeah, you know, a lot of users are relieved that it's back, but also feeling some kind of whiplash. I mean, leading up to the ban, I'd see videos on TikTok of people saying goodbye to the app with tears in their eyes. Then on Saturday night, the app just stopped working earlier than expected. It left TikTok users feeling shocked, grief, confusion. But yesterday, surprise again, it was back.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Congress passed a law last year basically requiring TikTok to shut down in the U.S. unless it cut ties from its China-based owner, ByteDance. The concern being that China could manipulate TikTok in ways that would pose a risk to American security.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Trump said he's going to issue an executive order to pause the ban once he's sworn in, so sometime today. Though it's worth noting that legal experts have questioned whether Trump can even use an executive order as an end run around a law Congress has already passed. Trump says he wants to give his administration more time to work out a deal.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
And he didn't mention a timeline, but he did tell NBC News that he was considering around 90 days.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Yeah, I mean, it's unclear, which is why Apple and Google haven't allowed TikTok back on their app stores after removing it. It's left new users unable to download TikTok. It also means the app can't receive important software updates, you know, to fix bugs and other glitches. The law says the White House has to certify to Congress that a TikTok sale is in progress before it can pause the ban.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Otherwise, Apple, Google, and other companies could potentially face hefty financial penalties. And it's why, for now, legal experts told my colleague Bobby Allen that Apple and Google are waiting to see Trump's next steps.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Yeah, I mean, Trump assures companies that they won't be held liable if they help to bring TikTok back online. But not everyone is sure that companies will be let off the hook that easily.
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Inauguration Day, Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, TikTok
Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who's also the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, warned about this on X. He said companies working with TikTok before it splits from ByteDance could face hundreds of billions of dollars in fines, not just from the Justice Department, but from shareholder lawsuits and state attorneys general.