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Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted methods are increasingly used for phenotyping, variant prioritisation, splice prediction, protein modelling, DNA methylation episignature classification and multi-omic analysis. However, these approaches differ substantially in evidentiary status and are often applied as separate prediction tasks rather than as components of an explicit mechanistic model. In this targeted narrative review, focused primarily on rare and genetically enriched neurodevelopmental disorders, we examine how AI-assisted methods may contribute to systems-level interpretation while remaining anchored to established molecular diagnosis and variant-classification frameworks. We propose a hypothesis-generating load-capacity framework comprising regulatory load, network capacity, developmental buffering and regulatory network instability. These are treated as operationalisable but currently unvalidated constructs. Regulatory instability is distinguished from stable disease-associated dysregulation, and threshold-like behaviour is presented as an empirical possibility rather than an assumed property of neurodevelopmental disease. We formulate five falsifiable predictions, consider how genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, single-cell, spatial, imaging, neurophysiological and longitudinal phenotypic evidence can provide complementary mechanistic constraints, and outline an auditable workflow following nondiagnostic genomic testing. We distinguish clinically implemented approaches from translational, emerging and conceptual applications, and emphasise calibration, evidence traceability, domain validity, prospective validation and appropriate abstention. Finally, we describe the Instability Twin as a prospective architecture composed of independently testable patient-specific sub-models rather than an existing clinical platform. 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