Beyond the Black Box: Architecting Explainable AI for the Structured Logic of Law
The Epistemic Gap: Why Standard XAI Fails in Legal Reasoning The core drawback is that AI explanations and authorized justifications function on totally different epistemic planes. AI gives technical traces of decision-making, whereas regulation calls for structured, precedent-driven justification. Standard XAI methods consideration maps and counterfactuals fail to bridge this hole. Attention Maps and Legal…