{"id":240714,"date":"2026-07-06T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/my-ai-did-it-is-the-next-courtroom-excuse-and-it-might-actually-work\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:20:14","slug":"my-ai-did-it-is-the-next-courtroom-excuse-and-it-might-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/my-ai-did-it-is-the-next-courtroom-excuse-and-it-might-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My AI Did It\u2019 Is The Next Courtroom Excuse\u2014And It Might Actually Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/ai-did-next-courtroom-excuse-135357430.html\">\u2018My AI Did It\u2019 Is The Next Courtroom Excuse\u2014And It Might Actually Work<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/ai-did-next-courtroom-excuse-135357430.html\">https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/ai-did-next-courtroom-excuse-135357430.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-06 09:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"uk.news.yahoo.com\">uk.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>SAIDI Excuse<\/strong>: The paper warns of a new courtroom defense, &#8220;SAIDI&#8221; (Some Artificial Intelligence Did It), which leverages AI agents to either create no digital forensic records or ones that falsely implicate users.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Avoided Footprints<\/strong>: AI agents working behind the scenes create no digital footprints like shortcut files or registry entries, leading to a false conclusion that the user did not interact with the document.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>False Positive Evidence<\/strong>: Alternatively, AI-modified files may look like they were edited by a user, creating a misleading record of action.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Recovery of True Activity<\/strong>: The truth can be found in the file system\u2019s change journal, event logs, and the AI session logs, though these are not typically examined.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Challenges for Courts<\/strong>: Courts are struggling to handle digital evidence already, and integrating machine-generated evidence faces hurdles, especially regarding accountability and reliability.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Existing Presence of AI<\/strong>: AI agents are already performing tasks on ordinary computers under user accounts, setting the stage for future disputes over file attribution.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Unaccountable Agents<\/strong>: Since AI lacks a conscience, it cannot provide testimony under oath, complicating the presentation of machine-generated evidence in court.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018My AI Did It\u2019 Is The Next Courtroom Excuse\u2014And It Might Actually Work https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/ai-did-next-courtroom-excuse-135357430.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/forbes_contributor_845\/6fdd3a6eb09149d8a7c4029e9325ee7d","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-240714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240716,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240714\/revisions\/240716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}