WSJ: AI-Assisted Code Silently Tampers With DNA-Evidence Scans on Widely Used Crime-Lab Machines

Researchers demonstrated that AI-assisted code can undetectably tamper with data from computerized scans of physical DNA evidence produced by widely used crime-lab machines, WSJ reports, exposing chain-of-custody assumptions that underpin roughly 30 years of forensic casework. The finding lands as courts increasingly grapple with AI-generated and AI-manipulated evidence in criminal proceedings.