Forensic evidence handling solved provenance a century ago. Machine decisions are about to be held to the same standard, and most artificial intelligence systems cannot answer the only question that matters: prove what you did.
Evidence that cannot prove its own handling is no evidence at all. The same is becoming true of artificial intelligence decisions. This essay applies forensic chain of custody to machine actions and lands on the signed, tamper-evident, offline-verifiable record as the difference between a log and admissible proof.
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