Abstract: The relationship between technocracy and the rule of law is a new consideration for the legalization of governance in an intelligent society. In the intelligent age, technocracy, which is based on algorithms and data, affects the rule of law in social governance, leading to changes in the language structure of legal practice, legal judgment, and the form of justice. However, technocracy has limitations in its involvement in legal practice. These limitations are specifically manifested in the following ways: the codification of legal text language does not promote the emergence of good laws; legal judgment overemphasizes instrumental rationality while ignoring value rationality; and objective, quantitative data justice is hard to truly realize legal justice. Technocracy and the rule of law are not two absolutely isolated subsystems. Instead, they have a dialectical relationship of mutual causation. The trend of their mutual embedding and coupling is unstoppable. It is necessary to reflect on how the legal system of an intelligent society can respond to the embedding and coupling of technocracy to realize the generative update of the legal system. To this end, we should adhere to the regulatory position of “promotive regulation” that responds to science and technology, speed up the value alignment of artificial intelligence with humans, and realize algorithmic justice through the legal reservation and technical due process.