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Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals* (1993) and Federal Rule of Evidence 702 make the trial judge a gatekeeper, and the Supreme Court enumerated the factors the gate turns on: **can the technique be tested** (and has it been); **has it been subjected to peer review and publication**; **what is its known or potential rate of error**; **do standards exist that control its operation**; and **is it generally accepted** in the relevant community.\n\nMachine-generated judgement is now routinely upstream of litigated facts — a model read the covenant, classified the transaction, disposed of the alert — and when that judgement is offered through an expert, or attacked through one, it faces the same five questions. For most AI systems the honest answers are: untested in any falsifiable sense, unpublished, error rate unknown, no operative standards, no acceptance. The methodology is vulnerable at the threshold, before anyone reaches the merits.\n\nThis page walks the factors one at a time against a system that is running, and maps each factor to a live artifact — including the factors that are **not** satisfied, stated as plainly as the ones that are.\n\n## Factor one: tested — with the failure on the record\n\nDaubert's first factor is falsifiability: not \"could this in principle be tested\" but whether it has been, and what happened. The strongest evidence a methodology can offer here is a documented failure that was caught by its own machinery, retracted, and fixed. This one has that. The derivation-agreement gate — the component that refuses to seal a decision unless independent models agree clause by clause on *why*, not just on the verdict — originally compared clause numbers only. It sealed an approval on three seats that cited the same clauses while meaning different things by them: a **false convergence**. The audit caught it, the seal was retracted as invalid, the comparison was rebuilt on canonical per-clause derivation tuples, and the failure case is now a regression test:\n\n[[embed:source:s4]]\n\nBehind that sits a 72-call controlled study — three prompt arms, three models, eight runs each, on a case with known ground truth — establishing that the governing constitution is a measured causal variable: auditable structure (declared-absent records, flip conditions, rejected alternatives) appeared in zero of 48 ungoverned calls, and clause-citation agreement rose from 0.74 to 0.95 under governance:\n\n[[embed:source:s5]]\n\nA methodology that has published its own falsification and repair is answering Daubert factor one in the strongest available form.\n\n## Factor two: peer review — partially, and honestly\n\nThe receipts, rule sets, probe suites and failure analyses are public and attackable: every hash is recomputable, every payload is complete, and adversarial model audits of the system's own inputs are on the ledger. That is publication and exposure to challenge. It is **not** academic peer review — no journal, no anonymous referees, no independent replication by an outside laboratory. A court weighing this factor gets scrutiny-by-publication, not scrutiny-by-discipline, and counsel should characterise it exactly that way.\n\n## Factor three: the known rate of error, as a table\n\nThis is the factor most AI evidence dies on, and here it is the factor supplied most directly. The panel's error rate was measured by running fourteen probes with pre-declared correct verdicts through the identical adjudication path — same rule set pinned at SHA-256, same prompts, same temperature — across five models, seventy findings in all:\n\n[[embed:source:s1]]\n\nThe numbers are unflattering and published anyway. The panel's **false-confidence rate** — returning a verdict where the correct answer was \"cannot conclude\" — runs from 21.4% on the best seat to 42.9% on the worst. 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