Jaysnewphone t1_j747e91 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 11:10 PM

Lawyers are afraid because machines are coming for their jobs this time. It will be fine, I hear McDonald's is hiring also there are 3 available full time positions at my local Home Depot.

Fake_William_Shatner t1_j74chth wrote on February 3, 2023 at 11:46 PM

Lawyers will just sue anyone who tries to use AI into oblivion -- problem solved. It won't get the opportunity to prove itself for "reasons."

I mean, if we had universal healthcare / Medicaid 4 All -- you no longer need a lot of people in the insurance industry. A lot of bill collectors and accountants. You also lose about half of the attorneys making a living on personal injury.

You'd still have corporate law. But, behind the scenes, everyone would be taking advantage of AI to create documents, file motions, find relevant laws and subpoenas and the like.

CallFromMargin t1_j75ajwz wrote on February 4, 2023 at 4:18 AM

Lawyers will be among the last to be replaced. They have baked into the laws provisions about you being licensed practitioner, and they will argue that only applies to humans.

Jaysnewphone t1_j77svp3 wrote on February 4, 2023 at 7:01 PM

That's exactly how they keep the immigrants out.

Commotion t1_j74d6a7 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 11:51 PM

People who think this current generation of AI threatens attorneys’ jobs don’t understand what attorneys do.

Jaysnewphone t1_j77t0d5 wrote on February 4, 2023 at 7:02 PM

Give it 10 or 20 years.

Commotion t1_j77vhbn wrote on February 4, 2023 at 7:19 PM

It might happen. But it will require truly human-like AI. A kind of AI that could also practice medicine or software engineering, or pretty much any professional work.

I hope we get there. It would be a triumph of humanity if people no longer “need” to work. The challenge is ensuring the benefits of the technology are equally distributed in society.