Source: Law & Liberty
by James Andrews
“AI is a language engine. It does not invent meaning; it predicts plausibility. Trained on vast stores of text, it reproduces the judgments, insights, and blind spots of sources that no one, least of all its builders, fully understands. What it produces is not truth but a statistical echo of human choices about data and rules. That limitation reveals something fundamental about how it works. The model learns by detecting and reproducing statistical patterns in language, predicting which words are most likely to follow others based on training data. … The result is a system that can reproduce the language of knowledge but not the reasoning that makes knowledge possible. AI threatens our grasp of truth not because it lies, but because it lacks any shared framework for determining what truth is.” (10/27/25)