Is AI the New DNA?
Is AI the New DNA ? Chat-assisted Babak Taherzadeh American Hero Institutional Resistance, Finality, and the Next Evidentiary Reckoning When DNA testing emerged in American criminal law, it was not welcomed as a neutral advance in truth-seeking. It was resisted—subtly at first, then openly—by courts, prosecutors, and institutions whose legitimacy depended on the finality of convictions. DNA threatened not only individual verdicts, but an epistemic assumption: that the legal system, once procedurally complete, had reached the truth. Artificial intelligence now presents a similar disruption. Courts today are increasingly engaged in efforts—formal and informal—to shield adjudicative processes from AI. Judicial ethics opinions warn against its use. Bar associations urge restrictions. Legislatures contemplate limits framed as “guardrails.” The stated concern is reliability, bias, or misuse. The unstated concern is far more fundamental: AI challenges the monopoly courts hold over post-hoc tr...