> If I was killed in something as pointless as a road range incident and then an AI trained on me was wheeled into court to "forgive" my aggressor I'd be incensed from beyond the astral plane.

For sure, but the perpetrator received the maximum sentence possibly due to the emotional freight delivered by the AI message.

Who knows whether the convicted feels absolved by the AI forgiveness? However he feels, he received the harshest penalty he could have received (10 years).