It's one thing to analyze it. It's an entirely different thing to let a machine of dubious abilities create new DNA.

Isn't DNA in itself a machine of dubious abilities? It's only functional because what functions is what survives, imagine the amount of 'unsurvived' because of how shit the code is.

machines that undergo accelerate evolution, I would trust them more under rigorous guidelines

I just need to be able to test the guidelines and results. Clinical trial process to make an objective decision from that point.