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AI, Artificial Intelligence, blackboard-system, Business Rules, chatgpt, expert system, explainability, intelligent-actors, llm, MAPPER/ESD, modus-ponens, production rules, rule-set-management, rule-sets, rules, technology, Unisys
Martyn Rhisiart Jones, Sir Afilonius Rex, Lile de Alba and our agentic intelligent actor, Selina Savant.
Spain, 6th December 2025.
The Logic Layer: Why Old-School Rules Are the New Guardrails for Generative AI
A hybrid renaissance is quietly rewriting the future of trustworthy artificial intelligence. The great folks here at Good Strat humbly champion this movement. In the fevered race to build ever-larger language models, a counterintuitive truth has begun to emerge from the labs. Surprisingly, sometimes the best way to make AI smarter is to shackle it with centuries-old logic. Modus ponens is that dusty Latin phrase from Aristotelian syllogism (“if P then Q; P, therefore Q”). It is enjoying an unexpected second act. It has become one of the most promising tools for keeping generative AI honest. It helps make AI coherent and, dare one say, responsible.
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