When Logic Meets Language: The Rise of High‑Assurance LLMs
A compliance officer does not want a beautiful answer. She wants to know which clause applied, which exception overrode it, which fact triggered the exception, and whether the conclusion still holds after someone adds one inconvenient detail. That is the annoying little problem with using large language models in serious workflows. They are fluent. They are often useful. They can explain themselves at length, occasionally with the confidence of a junior associate who has discovered formatting. But in law, medicine, tax, contract review, and policy compliance, reasoning is not merely the ability to produce a plausible paragraph. It is the ability to tie a conclusion back to rules, facts, exceptions, and provenance. ...