AI & Law: Wittgenstein Rules Paradox

Dealing with the Rules Paradox in AI and the law

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• One of life’s considered blind spots is not knowing what you don’t know
• In the case of any methods or approaches based on rules, the “don’t know” possibility exists
• Ludwig Wittgenstein famously identified this rules-oriented paradox and a warning thereof
• There is an apparent impact on human attorneys and their practice of the law
• Likewise is an apparent impact on AI-based legal reasoning systems and the future therein

Introduction

What do you know and when did you come to realize that you know it?

Are there things you don’t know, which you know that you don’t know?

And, do you think there may be things you don’t know, for which you don’t know that you don’t know them?

Some assert that the things you don’t know that you don’t know are the most insidious and most likely to undermine your…