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\u2018My AI Did It\u2019 Is The Next Courtroom Excuse\u2014And It Might Actually Work<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/ai-did-next-courtroom-excuse-135357430.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-06 09:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: uk.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

AI agents can work a computer two ways: creating none of the records digital forensic examiners use to prove a person did something, or creating records that look like a person did it. Either way, the next courtroom excuse is already installed on ordinary computers.<\/p>\n

The warning comes from Ovie Carroll, a SANS Institute principal instructor, co-author of its Windows forensic analysis course and director of the Justice Department’s cybercrime lab, writing in his personal capacity. In a new paper, he gives the excuse a name: SAIDI, short for “some artificial intelligence did it.” Attorneys have leaned on its ancestor for decades. SODDI, “some other dude did it,” is the argument that the Wi-Fi was open, the account was shared, the malware was responsible, anyone but the defendant was at the keyboard. The successor swaps the unknown human for the AI assistant the user installed themselves.<\/p>\n

The paper is built on a controlled test. On a Windows 11 machine, Carroll placed a Word document in a OneDrive folder and instructed an AI agent, the open-source OpenClaw framework running Anthropic’s Claude, to open the document, add a summary paragraph and save it. The agent did the work. It just never worked the way a person would. Instead of opening Word, it rewrote the file through a programming library inside an invisible PowerShell session, the kind of silent process that runs with no window and no click. The document changed. The change synced to the cloud. Word launched afterward only to display the finished file.<\/p>\n

The records Windows creates when a human opens a document, the shortcut files, the recent-documents lists, the registry entries examiners reach for first, were never created. An examiner relying on them would have reported the document was never opened. That conclusion would have been false, and Carroll ran the test to show how easily.<\/p>\n

A File In Your Folder No Longer Proves You Touched It<\/h2>\n

Digital evidence disputes often come down to evidence of attribution, or who was…<\/p>\n

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