How will DNA testing services affect affirmative action?

A while back, I found myself wondering in this column what would happen if self-driving cars screwed up. Who’d be at fault?

Pretty soon afterward an Arizona pedestrian was killed by one of those autonomous cars and now everyone is wondering about the future of these guided missiles.

There’s another technological advancement that has me curious: How will these DNA testing services affect affirmative action?

Case in point, a friend of mine who has been Italian all his life recently found out that he’s actually 3 percent African.

Since his family came from Sicily and he’s always been olive-skinned, that is not surprising.

But could my friend, who I will call Mike because that’s his name, have applied for scholarships, favorable admission and the like to universities because of that 3 percent?

Mike’s too old now to learn anything, so this won’t matter to him.

But how about the millions of kids who apply to schools and jobs each year who could get beneficial treatment because of this?

I called around to some universities and they didn’t want to, or wouldn’t, discuss the matter. But could people finding out they have a slice of minority in them complicate affirmative action?

Dunno, but it has me wondering.