Technology,
Law Practice
Oct. 22, 2020
Pure logic alone is insufficient on the path toward AI and the law
A common assumption is that the law ought to be readily codified into a form of pure logic and thus amenable to easily being embodied into an online computer-based system and database. Turns out that this idealized approach is much more difficult than discerned at first glance and the matter remains quite puzzling and unresolved.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
During my classes on artificial intelligence and the law, one of the questions I most often get asked involves the seemingly apparent notion that pure logic ought to be able to encapsulate the law. In essence, rather than dealing with all of the various AI-empowered and profusely complex systems techniques and advanced computer-based technologies, just simply put the law into an everyday logic formulation.
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