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I don't. They'll just pass a law to make robot lawyers illegal. Rent seeking can be a powerful force against automation.

• contingencies 9y ago
  It will play out like H&R Block in accounting. One firm will aggressively automate most procedural, standard advisory and contract law, undercutting the rest. They will be joined by others for the race to the bottom. The beginnings already exist. https://medium.com/legal-tech/legal-tech-startups-9755b18f93ac https://medium.com/legal-tech/legal-tech-startups-9755b18f93... PS. Any legal firm without a strategy here can hire me (at lawyer rates) to tell them how to get with the program. ;)
• PhasmaFelis 9y ago
  > They'll just pass a law to make robot lawyers illegal. You make that sound like a bad thing. God knows humans fuck a lot of things up. And a lot of legal professions are mostly busywork, which I assume AI can help with. But allowing machines to literally rule us is a long, long way from a good idea, and that's essentially what will happen if you let AI take over e.g. trial lawyering.
• paulddraper 9y ago
  And yet TurboTax exists. Why did no one pass a law against "robot accountants"?