Studies in Science of Science ›› 2026, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 739-745.

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Algorithmic Governance: Exploring the Relationship between Technocracy and the Rule of Law in the Intelligent Age

  

  • Received:2025-03-19 Revised:2025-05-07 Online:2026-04-15 Published:2026-04-15

算法之治:智能时代的技治与法治关系探赜

林韶   

  1. 浙江大学
  • 通讯作者: 林韶
  • 基金资助:
    网络化开放创新范式下企业知识产权市场化保护与价值转化机制研究

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.

摘要: 技治与法治的关系是智能社会法治化治理的最新思考。智能时代,以算法和数据为本位的技治辐射社会治理的法治秩序,激励法治实践的语言结构、法律判断以及正义形态发生转变。但技治的工具理性介入法治实践存在局限,表现为法律文本语言的代码化无法促进良法的出现、法律判断过度强调工具理性而忽视价值理性以及客观定量的数据正义难以真正实现法治正义。技治与法治不是两个绝对孤立的子系统,二者之间是互为因果的辩证关系,有必要反思智能社会的法治系统如何因应技治的内嵌与耦合实现法治系统的生成式更新。对此,应当坚持法律因应科技的“促进型规制”规范立场、加快实现人工智能与人类的价值对齐以及借助法律保留与技术性正当程序来实现算法正义。

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