> Are lawyers at risk? There are a lot of sub-areas of expertise and practice that someone with a JD might choose to specialize in. I have some small personal

> Are lawyers at risk? There are a lot of sub-areas of expertise and practice that someone with a JD might choose to specialize in. I have some small personal experience in (technically) advising a failed/defunct startup that sought to solve the problem of patent search using an AI. This was years ago, now...maybe around 2018ish. The endeavor failed for various reasons, but it did provide some insight that's relevant to your question here. As these language models become more advanced (and much more accurate) I think there will be a number of ways in which they will disrupt existing domains of human expertise. Note that I used the word disrupt and not displace. In the patent search space that I was lightly involved in for a short time I basically learned how expensive and time-consuming a good patent search actually is. The machines were planned to be leveraged to drastically reduce the time and cost of typical prior art searches, but would still require human touch-points to interpret results and make final decisions/reports. I think this sort of use-case is much more in line with what will ultimately happen in any sort of foreseeable future. The AI will supplement and ease the previously-human-only task. It will not supplant/replace it.