Lemekha R. Artificial intelligence and positive understanding of law

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33098/2078-6670.2025.19.31.80-87

The article explores the possibilities of using artificial intelligence to deepen positive legal understanding. The objective of this study is to find out the possibilities of applying artificial intelligence within the framework of positive legal understanding. Methodology. This article uses general scientific and special legal methods of scientific research, which include analysis, comparison and generalization of scientific and theoretical material and personal empirical experience of the author regarding the problems of using artificial intelligence to understand the norms of positive law. Results. Based on the study’s results, the essence of the concept of «artificial intelligence», regulatory regulation in this area, and the legal status of artificial intelligence are analyzed. Some examples of the application of various models of artificial intelligence in legal issues are given, in particular, attention is focused on the possibility of using artificial intelligence in law-making, law enforcement, and general legal activities, which are closely related to the legal understanding of the subjects of their implementation. It has been found that artificial intelligence, at this stage, is not endowed with its legal understanding. Still, it can contribute to a person’s in-depth understanding of normative legal acts or legal acts of individual action, by processing large amounts of information, providing appropriate recommendations, making comparisons of various legal structures, etc. At the same time, caution is expressed about excessive and premature reliance on the capabilities of artificial intelligence in matters that may affect the fate of individuals, groups, or entire nations, or in matters related to significant economic risks. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the issue of linking the capabilities of artificial intelligence to the issues of legal understanding of positive law has been comprehensively worked out.  Practical significance. The study of the current state of development of artificial intelligence, and its use within the framework of the positivist approach to legal understanding, can be used directly in the application of artificial intelligence to deepen the understanding of positive law norms, the design of normative legal acts, as material for further scientific research or as educational and theoretical material within the study of the specialty «Jurisprudence».

Key words: law, positive, legal understanding, artificial, intelligence.

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