Machine Reasoning: Translation, Truth, and Decision

We don’t lose trust because models hallucinate — we lose it because our rules are ambiguous, outdated, or impossible to decide exhaustively.
Three Challenges
- Translation: Natural language → formal logic, with cross-checks to catch contradictions.
- Truth: Real-world rules disagree and change; your “truth set” must be explicit and maintainable.
- Decision: Some queries are intractable/undecidable — robust systems return Unknown rather than guess.
Takeaways
- Treat policy as code: versioned, testable, explainable
- Prefer consistency over completeness; Unknown > confident wrong
- Combine LLMs + solvers for verifiable answers