AI delivers accurate and objective forensic DNA evidence

M. W. Perlin, "AI delivers accurate and objective forensic DNA evidence", AI and Criminal Justice: Challenges and Opportunities, Duquesne University Law School, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov-2024.

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Abstract

In November 2024, Dr. Mark Perlin spoke for an hour to lawyers and judges at a Duquesne University law symposium. He focused on three main topics: how human DNA interpretation fails, why computer artificial intelligence succeeds, and how people suppress computer intelligence. The impact on justice of respectively losing truth, finding truth, and hiding truth.

His talk on “AI delivers accurate and objective forensic DNA evidence” taught fundamental DNA evidence concepts through the murder case of New York v. John Wakefield. Dr. Perlin led the general audience through the crime, the DNA evidence, the TrueAllele results and trial, and the highest courts finding TrueAllele reliable. Why does man limit what machines can tell us? And how can proper incentives restore forensic information for criminal justice?