The Bionic Turn in Legal Epistemology

The paper addresses how technology, legal informatics, and legal cybernetics can transform the traditional understanding and structure of sources of law. The author wonders whether AI-generated outputs, such as texts, analyses, or decision-making recommendations, can be perceived as a new type of legal normativity. The central concept is the bionic lawyer figure – a person equipped with a digital interface or augmented rationality who acts as an intermediate link between the traditional legal system and technological outputs. The paper also examines the philosophical, theoretical, and epistemological features that led to the synthesis of law, cybernetics, and informatics. The author argues that in a particular situation, advanced legal analytical tools (equipped with machine learning and natural language processing) and data-driven law can acquire the status of a factual source of law, thus creating a hybrid model of new legal ontology concerning a broad spectrum of legal information and legal data.